Library of Congress, 1897 - 1988

38 pamphlets primarily containing various lecture series published by the Library of Congress in Washington DC. Included are lectures presented under the auspices of the Whittall Fund from 1955-1986, lectures given by the Consultant in Poetry (Poet Laureate) during their terms between 1964 and 1986, and materials published by or affiliated with the Center for the Book. Occasional manuscript material such as letters, leaflets, or other small pieces of ephemera are present along with individual pamphlets. Where possible, lecture dates reflect when the talk was delivered, and do not necessarily match the publication year. The materials included are as follows.

Consultant in Poetry Lectures

1964: Reed Whittemore, “Ways of Misunderstanding Poetry”
1965: Stephen Spender, “Chaos and Control in Poetry”
1967: James Dickey, “Metaphor as Pure Adventure”
1970: William Jay Smith, “Louise Bogan: A Woman’s Words”
1971-1972: William Stafford, “Leftovers” and Josephine Jacobsen, “From Anne to Marianne”
1973: Josephine Jacobsen, “The Instant of Knowing”
1975: Stanley Kunitz, “From Feathers to Iron”
1983: Anthony Hecht, “Robert Lowell”
1984: Anthony Hecht, “The Pathetic Fallacy”

Whittall Lectures

1955: Gay Wilson Allen, et al., “Walt Whitman: Man, Poet, Philosopher”
1956: R.P. Blackmur, “Anni Mirabiles 1921-1925: Reason in the Madness of Letters”
1956: Archibald Henderson, “George Bernard Shaw: Man of the Century”
1957: Irving Stone et al., “Three Views of the Novel”
1959: Leon Edel, “Willa Cather: The Paradox of Success”
1959: Robert Hillyer, et al., “Anniversary Lectures”
1959-1960: Pierre Emmanuel, et al., “French and German Letters Today”
1961: Marc Slonim, et al., “Perspectives: Recent Literature of Russia, China, Italy, and Spain”
1963: Saul Bellow, “Recent American Fiction”
1964: Ralph Ellison and Karl Shapiro, “The Writer’s Experience”
1964: Louis Untermeyer, “Robert Frost: A Backward Look”
1966: Karl Shapiro, “Randall Jarrell”
1974: Helen Bacon et al., “Robert Frost: Lectures on the Centennial of his Birth”
1979: A. Walton Litz, “Wallace Stevens: The Poetry of Earth”
1982: Richard Ellmann, “James Joyce’s Hundredth Birthday: Side and Front Views”
1983: Richard Ellmann, “Oscar Wilde at Oxford”
1983: Reed Whittemore, “William Carlos Williams: ‘The Happy Genius of the Household’”
1984: Richard Ellmann, “W.B. Yeats’s Second Puberty”
1985: Richard Ellmann, “Samuel Beckett: Nayman of Noland”

Center for the Book Publications

The Center for the Book in the Library of Congress: The Planning Year, 1978

Dan H. Laurence, A Portrait of the Author as a Bibliography, 1983

Justine Caplan, Born to Trouble: One Hundred Years of Huckleberry Finn, 1985

John P. Feather and David McKitterick, The History of Books and Libraries: Two Views, 1986

John D. MacDonald, Reading for Survival, 1987

Lawrence Clark Powell, ”Next to Mother’s Milk…, 1987

Robert W. Burchfueld and Hans Aarsleff, The Oxford English Dictionary and the State of the Language, 1988

>Miscellaneous

Herbert Small, comp., Handbook of the New Library of Congress in Washington, 1897

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Creativity in Statecraft, 1983

Reed Whittemore, Poets and Anthologistsl, 1986