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Collection Overview
Title: James Dickey Papers (MSS035), 1954-1996
Predominant Dates:1954-1996
ID: MSS/MSS/035
Extent: 13.0 Boxes
Languages: English
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The James Dickey Papers include a correspondence file, spanning 1954 to 1970, consisting of nearly 1000 letters from literary figures, publishers, editors, and friends. Letters from literary notables are often accompanied by their poetry manuscripts. The bulk of the collection consists of Dickey's own manuscript drafts of poems, essays, reviews, translations and addresses. Proof of Dickey's meticulous craftmanship is found in his heavily revised poetry manuscripts, many of which have undergone such pronounced change that the initial worksheet is unrecognizable from the final version. The Dickey Papers also include editorial matter toward all of his books of poetry prior to 1970, as well as a collection of informal monologue published that same year as Self-Interviews.
Collection Historical Note
James Dickey was an American author and poet whose work brought him international recognition as well as innumerable awards. Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Dickey's urban Southern roots are clearly evident throughout his poetry. Dickey began his college education at Clemson University, but left at the outbreak of World War II to enlist in the United States Army Air Force. His experiences as a fighter pilot provided him with subject matter for some of his best known poems. Dickey subsequently completed both Bachelor's and Master's degrees at Vanderbilt University where among his teachers was the critic Monroe K. Spears who was influential in directing Dickey's interest toward poetry.
James Dickey began writing poetry in 1947, but turned to writing full-time only in 1960 when his first book, Into the Stone and Other Poems, was published. Prior to this, Dickey had worked as a college instructor and as a highly successful advertising executive. In 1966, Dickey was awarded the National Book Award for his second poetry collection, Buckdancer's Choice. He received international acclaim for his 1970 novel and 1972 screenplay, Deliverance. He is the author of more than 17 books of poems and 12 books of prose.
Administrative Information
Repository:
MSS Manuscripts
Access Restrictions:
Open
Use Restrictions:
Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.
Providing access to materials does not constitute permission to publish or otherwise authorize use. All publication not covered by fair use or other exceptions is restricted to those who have permission of the copyright holder, which may or may not be Washington University.
If you wish to publish or license Special Collections materials, please contact Special Collections to inquire about copyright status at (314) 935-5495 or spec@wumail.wustl.edu. (Publish means quotation in whole or in part in seminar or term papers, theses or dissertations, journal articles, monographs, books, digital forms, photographs, images, dramatic presentations, transcriptions, or any other form prepared for a limited or general public.)
Acquisition Source:
Gift and purchase
Acquisition Method:
Accession number 885, purchase from James Dickey, 1967
Accession number 979, gift of David Smith, 1968
Accession number 1082, purchase from James Dickey, 1969
Accession number 1251, purchase from James Dickey, 1971
Accession number 22975, gift of John Gallogly
Preferred Citation:
Name of the Collection, Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections
Processing Information:
Processed March 1972
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- Series 2: Manuscripts

- Consists of poems, essays, reviews, addresses, and translations by Dickey
- Sub-Series 1: Poems

- Box 3

- Item 1: Adultery, Folder 21

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 5 drafts, 5 pages
- Item 2: After the Night Hunt, Folder 22

- Typescript [carbon], 2 drafts, 2 pages
- Item 3: Angina, Folder 23

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 14 drafts. Word list, 1 page. Notes, 1 page. 26 pages
- Item 4: Antipolis, Folder 24

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 12 drafts, 12 pages. Alternate titles: The Rampart, The Rampart of Antibes
- Item 5: Apollo, Folder 25

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 25 drafts, 30 pages. Alternate title: For the Apollo Eight Moon Orbit. Poem published in two parts: Part I - For the First Manned Moon Orbit, Part II - The Ground
- Item 6: Approaching Prayer, Folder 26

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft, 4 pages
- Item 7: As In a Tower, Folder 27

- Typescript draft, 12 drafts, 12 pages
- Item 8: At Darien Bridge, Folder 28

- Typescript, typescript [carbon], manuscript drafts, 13 drafts, 13 pages. Alternate titles: The Salt Marsh, The Prisoner, To Prisoners, The Marshes
- Item 9: Awaiting the Swimmer, Folder 29

- Typescript, 10 drafts, 11 pages
- Item 10: The Bay of Naples, Folder 30

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 7 drafts, 7 pages. Alternate title: On the Bay of Naples
- Item 11: The Bay of Naples [variant], Folder 31

- Typescript, typescript [carbon], 7 drafts, 7 pages
- Item 12: The Bee, Folder 32

- Typescript, typescript [carbon], 7 drafts, 17 pages. Alternate title: The Coaches, A Fable of the Bees, The Wingback
- Item 13: A Beginning Poet, Aged Sixty-Five, Folder 33

- Typescript, 12 drafts, 19 pages. Alternate titles: A Beginning Poet, aged Sixt, To A Beginning Poet
- Item 14: The Being, Folder 34

- Typescript, 5 drafts. Notes, 1 page. 11 pages
- Item 15: Below Ellijay, Folder 35

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft. Autograph listing sections of poem, 1 page. 3 pages. Published as Part II of On the Coosawattee in Helments
- Item 16: A Birth, Folder 36

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft, 1 page
- Item 17: The Birthday Dream, Folder 37, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts, no revision; 3 drafts, moderate revision; 3 drafts heavy revision. 8 drafts, 16 pages. Alternate titles: The Birthday Sleep, The Intense World, Intensity
- Item 18: Blood, Folder 38, 1969

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 19: Blowgun and Rattlesnake, Folder 39, 1963

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 7 pages. 2 fragments, notes included. Alternate titles: Snake Poem, Instructions for Rattlesnake Hunting with a Blowgun, Hunting Rattlesnakes, Snake Hunter with Blowgun, The Snake Hunter, Blowgunning for (Rattle)snakes.
- Item 20: Brambles, Folder 40

- Typescript, 1 draft with light reivison, 1 draft with moderate revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 7 pages. Alternate title: Thorns
- Item 21: Bread, Folder 41, 1967

- Typescript, 2 drafts with light reivison, 1 draft with moderate reivison, 1 draft with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 22: Breath, Folder 42, 1963

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with heavy revision, 2 pages
- Item 23: Buckdancer's Choice, Folder 43, 1965

- Typescriptm 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 7 pages. 1 page of autograph notes, 2 page work list
- Item 24: Bums, On Waking, Folder 44, 1963

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 7 pages
- Item 25: By Canoe Through the Fir Forest, Folder 45, 1962

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 5 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 12 pages. Published as Part I of On the Coosawattee. Alternate titles: Through the Fir Forest by Canoe, Through the Fir Forest by Boat, Wooded River, (Through) Entering the Fir Forest by (Boat) River
- Item 26: The Call, Folder 46, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon]. 3 drafts with light revision, 7 drafts with moderate revision, and 4 drafts with heavy revision. 14 drafts, 17 pages. Alternate title: Summer Dusk
- Item 27: Canals, Folder 47

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 13 pages. Includes 1 page word list
- Item 28: The Cancer Match, Folder 48, 1969

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 7 pages. Alternate titles: The Cancer War, The Cancer Fighter, (Nightfall). Cancer. Whiskey, Cancer and Whiskey, The Duel
- Item 29: Celebration, Folder 49, 1965

- Typescript, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 8 pages
- Item 30: Chenille, Folder 50, 1964

- Autograph and typescript, 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 10 pages
- Item 31: Cherrylog Road, Folder 51, 1963

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 3 pages
- Item 32: Children Reading, Folder 52, 1964

- Typescript, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 2 drafts, 3 pages. Alternate title: Children and Words
- Item 33: A Child's Room, Folder 53, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 4 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with moderate revision,3 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 11 pages. Alternate titles: A Child, A Beginning, The Son
- Item 34: The Christmas Towns, Folder 54

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision. 3 drafts, 3 pages
- Item 35: Church Candles in Crete, Folder 55

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 4 drafts with light revision, 12 drafts with moderate revision, 9 drafts with heavy revision. 25 drafts, 25 pages. Includes 1 page of autograph notes. Alternate title: Candles in a Church.
- Item 36: Climbing and Snowing, Folder 56

- Typescript, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 2 drafts, 12 pages. Inlcudes 1 page of notes. Alternate titles: To Join the Snow, Snowing
- Item 37: Coming Back to America, Folder 57, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 5 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 16 pages. Includes 1 page of notes, 1 page word list, and typescript setting copy with printers marks for the New Yorker. Alternate titles: America, Homecoming.
- Item 38: The Common Grave, Folder 58, 1964

- Typescript, 3 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, and 1 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 14 pages
- Item 39: The Crows, Folder 59, 1962

- Typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision. 2 drafts, 2 pages
- Item 40: The Cypresses, Folder 60, 1958

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision. 1 draft, 2 pages
- Box 4

- Item 1: Dark Ones, Folder 61, 1967

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 8 pages. Alternate titles: The Holding Action: An American Pastoral, The Return, The Return: An American Idyll, The Blessing: An American Pastoral, The Defense
- Item 2: Deer Among Cattle, Folder 62, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 10 pages. Inlcudes 1 page word list
- Item 3: A Departure, Folder 63

- Typescript, 1 draft with no revision. 1 draft, 1 page. Extensive autograph notes
- Item 4: Diabetes, Folder 64, 1969

Typescript and typescript [carbon]. Alternate title: Sugar Was Diabetes.
Sugar: Typescript, 5 drafts with heavy revision, 1 draft with light revision. 6 drafts, 6 pages. Original title: Diabetes.
Under Buzzards: Typescript and typescript [carbon], autograph and typescript notes. Two incomplete drafts, one draft dated 1967-1968, two drafts with no revision, two drafts with light revision, six drafts with moderate revision, and eight drafts with heavy revision. 20 drafts, 36 pp. Includes 6 pages of word lists. Alternate titles: Buzzards, Jessie Shields, The Barn.
- Item 5: Dover: Believing in Kings, Folder 65, 1958

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 long draft (63 pages) with extensive revision, corrections, and annotations throughout. 2 drafts, 67 pages. Alternate title: Bounding England
- Item 6: Drifting, Folder 66

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 18 pages. Includes 1 page word list
- Item 7: Drinking From a Helment, Folder 67, 1964

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 30 pages
- Item 8: Drinking from a Helment, Folder 68

- Typescript, 5 drafts with heavy revision throughout. 5 drafts, 13 pages
- Item 9: Drowning with Others, Folder 69, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 3 drafts with light revision, 9 drafts with moderate revision, 16 drafts with heavy revision. 29 drafts, 31 pages
- Item 10: Drowning with Others, Folder 70

- Typescript, 17 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 19 drafts, 39 pages
- Item 11: Drowning with Others, Folder 71

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 5 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 7 drafts with heavy revision. 18 drafts, 18 pages. Alternate titles: Drowning in Clear Water, Drowning in Bright Water (In Sunlit Water), The Exstasie, The Diver
- Item 12: The Dusk of Horses, Folder 72, 1964

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 1 page. Alternate title: Horses at Dusk
- Item 13: Dust, Folder 73, 1965

- Typescript, 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision. 3 drafts, 5 pages. Includes 1 page of autograph notes, 1 page autograph word list/
- Item 14: Eden, Folder 74

- Typescript, 1 incomplete draft, 7 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 97 pages. Includes 1 page of typescript and autograph notes about the poem. Alternate titles: Adam, Thornton, The Trembling Artist
- Item 15: The Enclosure, Folder 75, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 20 pages.
- Item 16: Encounters in the Cage Country, Folder 76, 1967

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 incomplete drafts (Part I only), 4 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 19 pages. Includes 1 page of typescript notes
- Item 17: The Escape, Folder 77, 1964

- Typescript, 2 drafts with moderate reivision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 7 pages. Alternate titles: The Choice, Purchase
- Item 18: Europe, Folder 78

- Typescript, typescript [carbon], manuscript, 4 incomplete drafts, 3 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with moderate reivison, 8 drafts with heavy revision. 12 drafts, 24 pages
- Item 19: The Eye-Beaters, Folder 79, 1970

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 incomplete drafts, 24 draft with heavy revision. 24 drafts, 138 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list
- Box 5

- Item 1: The Eyes, Folder 80

- Typescript, 5 pages. Includes manuscript notes. Incomplete
- Item 2: Faces Seen Once, Folder 81, 1964

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 incomplete drafts, 1 draft with light revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 17 pages
- Item 3: Falling, Folder 82, 1967

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft incomplete, 1 draft with no revision, 6 drafts with moderate revision. 7 drafts, 39 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list and 6 page tyescript dedication page and title page as if from setting copy
- Item 4: The Falls, Folder 83

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 11 pages. Alternate title: The Voyage
- Item 5: False Youth: Two Seasons, Folder 84, 1967

- Manuscript, typescript, typescript [carbon], 2 drafts incomplete, 2 drafts with no revision, 3 drafts with light revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 12 drafts, 26 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list and 1 page autograph notes for Parts I and II. Alternate titles: The Only Youth, Seasons of the Last Youth, Seasons of the False Youth
- Item 6: The Father's Body, Folder 85, 1956

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 3 pages
- Item 7: Fathers and Sons, Folder 86, 1967

The Second Sleep: [1964] manuscript, typescript, and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with heavy revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with light revision. 9 drafts, 9 pages. Alternate titles: The Move, The Son, Two Places, The New Place, The Boy's Sleep in the Spring of His Tenth Year, Two Sleeps
The Aura: [1965] typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 incomplete drafts, 2 drafts with no revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with light revision. 9 drafts, 15 pages
- Item 8: The Fiend, Folder 87, 1965

- Typescript, 6 drafts with heavy revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision. 8 drafts, 38 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list
- Item 9: The Firebombing, Folder 88, 1964

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 incomplete drafts, 8 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 62 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list
- Item 10: The First Cold Weather, Folder 89

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 11 pages
- Item 11: The First Morning of Cancer, Folder 90, 1957

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision. 1 draft, 4 pages
- Item 12: The Flash, Folder 91, 1966

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 5 pages. Alternate title: the Flashes
- Item 13: The Flight, Folder 92, 1956

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with moderate revision. 3 drafts, 12 pages
- Item 14: Fog Envelops the Animals, Folder 93, 1961

- Typescript, 2 drafts with light revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 9 pages
- Item 15: A Folksinger of the Thirties, Folder 94, 1963

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision. 1 draft, 4 pages
- Item 16: For the Last Wolverine, Folder 95, 1967

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 19 pages
- Item 17: For the Linden Moth, Folder 96, 1964

- Typescript, 1 incomplete draft, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 8 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list
- Item 18: Fox Blood, Folder 97, 1965

- Typescript and manuscript, 2 incomplete drafts, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 8 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list. One draft bears note: "New style/Poem I/(metrics) (diction and meter)"
- Item 19: The Game, Folder 98, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 7 drafts with moderate revision, 7 drafts with heavy revision. 16 drafts, 18 pages. Alternate title: The Episode
- Item 20: Gamecock, Folder 99, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 8 pages. Alternate title: Dead Game
- Item 21: Genesis, Folder 100, 1958

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with heavy revision. 1 draft, 1 page
- Item 22: A Grave, Folder 101

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 8 drafts with light revision, 7 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 20 drafts, 20 pages. Alternate title: A Grave in a Graveyard
- Item 23: The Head-Aim, Folder 102, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 3 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 7 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list
- Item 24: The Heaven of Animals, Folder 103, 1961

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision. 1 draft, 1 page
- Item 25: Hedge Life, Folder 104, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 9 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list and 1 draft used for printer's setting copy for the New Yorker (1965: September 1)
- Item 26: Helmets, Folder 105

- Manuscript and typescript, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 3 drafts, 9 pages. Drafts vary considerably
- Item 27: Horses and Prisoners, Folder 106, 1963

- Typescript, 1 draft incomplete, 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision. 3 drafts, 5 pages. See also The Island Horses
- Item 28: The Hospital Orderly's Noon, Folder 107

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 1 page
- Item 29: The Hospital Window, Folder 108, 1962

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 9 drafts with moderate revision, 15 drafts with heavy revision. 25 drafts, 45 pages. Alternate titles: A Farewell, The Greeting, The Sign
- Item 30: Hunting Civil War Relics with a Mine-Detector, Folder 109

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts incomplete, 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 8 drafts with heavy revision. 15 drafts, 32 pages. See also Hunting Civil War Relics at Nimblewill Creek
- Item 31: The Ice Skin, Folder 110, 1963

- Typescript, 3 drafts with heavy revision, 1 draft varies considerably from others. 4 drafts, 7 pages
- Item 32: In the Bombardier's Compartment, Folder 111

- Typescript with heavy revision. 1 draft, 1 page. Alternate title: The Flight
- Item 33: In the Child's Night, Folder 112, 1963

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with heavy revision, 2 drafts with light revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 34: In the Pocket, Folder 113, 1970

- Typescript, 1 draft with heavy revision, 1 draft with light revision. 2 drafts, 5 pages. Includes 3 pages of notes about intent of poem
- Item 35: In the Tree-House at Night, Folder 114, 1961

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 4 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 11 drafts with heavy revision. 17 drafts, 34 pages
- Item 36: Into the Stone, Folder 115, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 5 drafts with light revision, 5 drafts with moderate revision, 14 drafts with heavy revision, 1 draft with no revision. 25 drafts, 33 pages
- Item 37: The Inundation, Folder 116, 1962, 1964

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with moderate revision. 1 draft, 2 pages. Published as On the Inundation. See also Part II, On the Coosawattee
- Item 38: Invitation au Voyage, Folder 117

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with heavy revision, 3 drafts with no revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 39: The Island, Folder 118, 1960

- Typescript, 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 17 pages. Alternate titles: The Keeper, The Graves, The Fever
- Box 6

- Item 1: The Island Horses, Folder 119

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision. 1 draft, 2 pages. See also Horses and Prisoners
- Item 2: Jane Proctor's Love Poem, Folder 120

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 6 pages. Alternate titles: Jane Saylor's Love Poem, Jane Saylor's Love Story
- Item 3: The Jewel, Folder 121, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 6 drafts with moderate revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 13 drafts, 13 pages. Alternate titles: In the Islands, The Crews
- Item 4: Joel Cahill Dead, Folder 122, 1958

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision, 7 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 9 pages. Alternate title: Joel Cahill
- Item 5: Knock, Folder 123, 1969

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 6: Kuduz, Folder 124, 1963

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with heavy revision, 2 drafts with light revision. 4 drafts, 8 pages
- Item 7: The Landfall, Folder 125, 1959

- Typescript, 6 drafts with moderate revision, 19 drafts with heavy revision. 25 drafts, 51 pages. Alternate titles: The Landfalls, The Voyage, The Arena
- Item 8: The Leap, Folder 126, 1967

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 12 pages
- Item 9: A Letter, Folder 127, 1962

- Typescript [carbon], 4 drafts with no revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 10: Lighthouse, Folder 128

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 6 pages
- Item 11: Lightning, Folder 129

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 10 pages. Includes 1 typescript page wordlist. Subtitled, Part IV: The Elect
- Item 12: Living Light, Folder 130

- Typescript, 1 draft with heavy revision. 1 draft, 1 page
- Item 13: The Lord in the Air, Folder 131, circa 1969

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 9 pages. Alternate title: The Power
- Item 14: Madness, Folder 132, circa 1969

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 6 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 28 pages. Includes 4 pages of note about the creation of the poem and 1 page of manuscript notes with word list
- Item 15: The Magus, Folder 133, 1960

- Typescript, 1 draft with no revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 6 pages
- Item 16: Mangham, Folder 134, 1965

- Typescript and manuscript, 5 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision. 6 drafts, 12 pages. Includes 2 page typescript word list
- Item 17: Mary Sheffield, Folder 135, 1964

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 5 drafts with light revision. 8 drafts, 10 pages. Includes 2 page typescript word lists, phrases. Alternate titles: Before War,Rivers
- Item 18: May Day Sermon to the Women of Gilmer County, Georgia, by a Woman Preacher Leaving the Baptist Church, Folder 136-138, 1967

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], circa 30 drafts, some apparently incomplete, some drafts out of order. Length varies, circa 8 - 20 pages each. Poem varies substantially from draft to draft. Moderate to heavy revision throughout. Loose sheets in three folders. Circa 30 drafts, circa 403 pages. Includes 2 pages of manuscript notes concerning poem. Original title: A May Day Courtship Legend. Alternate title: The Barn, An April Courtship..., A Courtship Legend of Gilmer County
- Item 19: Mercy, Folder 139

- Typescript and manuscript, 2 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 11 pages. Includes 1 typescript page of notes on intent of poem. Originally titled: At Mercy Manor
- Item 20: Messages, Folder 140

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 3 drafts, 10 pages. Includes 1 page typescript word list. Also includes Part I: Butterflies and Part II: Giving a Son to the Sea
- Item 21: The Metamorphoses, Folder 141

- Typescript, 1 draft with heavy revision. 1 draft, 1 page
- Item 22: Mindoro, Folder 142, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 5 drafts with light revision, 6 drafts with moderate revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 19 drafts, 67 pages. Includes several pages of manuscript notes. Originally titled: Poem From an Old War. Alternate title: Standing With the Rope
- Item 23: The Mission, Folder 143

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 10 drafts with moderate revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 17 drafts, 31 pages. Alternate title: The Game
- Box 7

- Item 1: A Morning, Folder 144

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 7 pages. Alternate title: Antibes
- Item 2: Near Darien, Folder 145, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 4 drafts with light revision, 18 drafts with moderate revision. 25 drafts, 39 pages
- Item 3: Net, Drying, Folder 146

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 4: The Night Pool, Folder 147, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 5: On the Hill Below the Lighthouse, Folder 148, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 8 pages. Original title: Below the Lighthouse. Alternate titles: The Lighthouse, Noon: The Lighthouse, Noon: Under the Lighthouse, Noon, The Memory
- Item 6: The Other, Folder 149, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 5 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 18 pages.
- Item 7: Paestum, Folder 150, 1963

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with no revision. 3 drafts, 9 pages
- Item 8: The Park, Folder 151

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with light revision, 8 drafts with heavy revision, 6 pages with incomplete passages or fragments. 11 drafts, 20 pages. Alternate titles: The Lake, The Garment
- Item 9: Patience: In the Mill, Folder 152

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision. 2 drafts, 2 pages
- Item 10: The Performance, Folder 153, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 3 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 12 drafts, 17 pages
- Item 11: Philoctetes, Folder 154

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 9 pages
- Item 12: Pine, Folder 155

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], no complete draft. Worksheets divided "Apprehensions" 1 -5. Moderate to heavy revision throughout. 10 page typescript and manuscript notes concerning the nature of the poem, 2 page typescript work lists, and loose sheets. 58 pages
- Item 13: The Place, Folder 156

- Typescript, 10 drafts with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 11 pages. Included 1 page manuscript notes. Alternate titles: Frozen Lakes, Winter in Madison
- Item 14: Poem, Folder 157, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision, 11 drafts with heavy revision, 5 drafts with moderate revision. 17 drafts, 34 pages. Includes 4 pages of fragments. Alternate titles: The Chain; The Look From a Dead Mind Changes; An Uncle, In His Death; The Chosen; On the Death of a Drunken (Grandfather) Uncle
- Item 15: Poem, Folder 158

- Typescript, several draft on one page, 3 pages. Haiku
- Item 16: Poem, Folder 159

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 3 drafts with light revision, 10 drafts with moderate revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 21 drafts, 30 pages. Alternate titles: Power, Haephestos
- Item 17: A Poem About Bird-Catching By One Who Has Never Caught a Bird, Folder 160, 1962

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 drafts with light revision. 2 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 18: The Poisoned Man, Folder 161, 1964

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 2 drafts, 3 pages
- Item 19: Power and Light, Folder 162

- Typescript, 3 drafts with light revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 17 pages. Alternate titles: The Ascent, Light, Power, Rebirth, Descent, Descent and Return
- Item 20: Praiano Lights, Folder 163

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 2 pages
- Item 21: The Prodigal, Folder 164, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 11 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. Some drafts incomplete. 14 drafts, 37 pages. Alternate titles: The Prodigal (Son), Umbria
- Item 22: Pursuit From Under, Folder 165, 1964

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 13 pages
- Item 23: The Rafters, Folder 166, 1964

- Typescript, 3 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision. 5 drafts, 9 pages. Alternate title: In the Rafters
- Item 24: Rainbird, Folder 167

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 25: Reading Genesis to a Blind Child, Folder 168, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 10 drafts with heavy revision. 17 drafts, 33 pages. Alternate titles: Reading to a Blind Child (Differs from poem of same title)
- Item 26: Reading to a Blind Child, Folder 169

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 9 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 16 drafts, 37 pages. Alternate titles: The Beginning, Poem
- Item 27: The Red Bow, Folder 170, 1957

- Typescript [carbon]. 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 5 pages
- Item 28: Reincarnation I, Folder 171, 1964

- Typescript, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 3 drafts, 3 pages
- Item 29: Reincarnation, Folder 172

- Typescript and typescript [photocopy], 3 drafts with light revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 6 pages. Differs from poem of same title
- Item 30: Reincarnation (II), Folder 173, 1964

- Typescript, typescript [carbon], typescript [photocopy], 2 drafts possibly incomplete. Heavy revision throughout 2 drafts, 6 pages. Variant, on version, Two Poems of the Air. Alternate title: Albatross
- Item 31: Reincarnation, Folder 174

- Typescript, 4 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts, 4 pages. Differs from poems of same title
- Item 32: Reincarnation (II), Folder 175, 1964

- Typescript, 3 drafts with moderate to heavry revision throughout, 27 pages. Includes 1 typescript page wordlist and 1 page of manuscript notes. Variant. See Two Poems of the Air
- Item 33: Reincarnation (II), Folder 176, 1964

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 35 pages
- Item 34: The Rib, Folder 177, 1962

- Typescript, 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 9 drafts with moderate revision, 8 drafts with heavy revision. 19 drafts, 34 pages. Drafts vary considerably. Alternate titles: Adam, Adam in Winter
- Item 35: Root-Light, or the Lawyer's Daughter, Folder 178

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 9 pages. Includes 1 typescript page wordlist and 1 page of typescript and manuscript notes
- Item 36: The Scratch, Folder 179, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 7 pages. Alternate title: Bleeding
- Item 37: Seeking the Chosen, Folder 180

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 9 pages. Alternate titles: In the Field of the Chosen, The Elect, Acorns
- Item 38: The Shark's Parlor, Folder 181, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with no revision, 7 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 13 drafts, 41 pages. Drafts divided into Parts I and II, some incomplete. Includes 2 pages typescript wordlists and 1 typescript page of notes
- Item 39: The Sheep-Child, Folder 182

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision. 7 drafts, 14 pages
- Item 40: The Signs, Folder 183, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 5 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 20 pages
- Box 8

- Item 1: Slave Quarters, Folder 184, 1965

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 13 drafts with light revision, 11 drafts with moderate revision,. A few drafts, page 1 only. 24 drafts, 93 pages
- Item 2: Sled Burial, Dream Ceremony, Folder 185, 1965

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 2 draft, 2 pages
- Item 3: Sleeping Out at Easter, Folder 186, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 9 drafts with light revision, 17 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision,. 28 drafts, 28 pages. Alternate titles: Sleeping Out In April, Sleeping Out in June, Sleeping Out in a Surburban Wood, Poem
- Item 4: Snakebite, Folder 187

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 14 pages. Includes 1 manuscript page word list and 2 page typescript notes
- Item 5: The Snow Serpent, Folder 188

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 4 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 8 pages
- Item 6: Springer Mountain, Folder 189, 1962

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 4 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 20 pages
- Item 7: The Sprinter at Forty, Folder 190

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with light revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 10 pages. Alternate titles: The Sprinter, A Vision of the Sprinter
- Item 8: The Step, Folder 191, 1962

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 2 pages
- Item 9: The Stepson, Folder 192

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 62 pages. 1 draft is incomplete, draft vary considerably, 1 - 14 pages each. Includes 2 pages of typescript notes concerning intent of poem
- Item 10: The Stepson (continued), Folder 193

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 6 drafts with light revision, 13 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. Circa 22 drafts, 101 pages. Numerous drafts only 1 page and several drafts incomplete. Includes 2 typescript pages of notes
- Item 11: The String, Folder 194, 1959

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 8 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 15 drafts, 17 pages. Alternate title: The Brother
- Item 12: The Summons, Folder 195, 1961

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 10 pages
- Item 13: Sun, Folder 196, Circa 1966

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 5 drafts with heavy revision. 9 drafts, 18 pages
- Item 14: Sustainment, Folder 197, Circa 1966

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 11 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list. Alternate titles: Descent, Descent and Sustenance, Dying on Horseback, Love Poem
- Item 15: The Swimmer, Folder 198

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 1 draft with light revision. 3 drafts, 10 pages. See also A Waiting the Swimmer for similar theme
- Item 16: Them, Crying, Folder 199, 1964

- Typescript, typescript [carbon], and manuscript, 3 drafts with no revision, 12 drafts with light revision, 7 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 24 drafts, 49 pages. 2 versions of poem, several drafts incomplete. Includes 1 typescript page word list and 1 page of manuscript notes
- Item 17: Through the Tree Line, Folder 200

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision. 3 drafts, 3 pages
- Item 18: To Be Edward Thomas, Folder 201, 1957

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision, 20 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 23 drafts, 147 pages. Drafts vary in length and form. Included 2 pages of manuscript notes
- Item 19: To Gweno, With a Guitar, Folder 202

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 6 drafts, 8 pages
- Item 20: Trees and Cattle, Folder 203, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 10 drafts, 10 pages. Alternate titles: Trees, Man and Trees, Stones and Cattle
- Item 21: Turning Away, Folder 204, 1966

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 8 drafts with moderate revision, 7 drafts with heavy revision, 21 loose sheets of incomplete drafts. 16 drafts, 137 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list
- Box 9

- Item 1: The Twin Stars, Folder 205

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 5 drafts with no revision, 4 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 17 drafts, 18 pages. Alternate titles: Dark, Convalescence (Recovery)
- Item 2: Two Poems of Going Home, Folder 206, 1969

In two parts.
Part I: Living There, typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 4 drafts, 9 pages. Includes 1 typescript page of notes concerning the poem
Part II: Looking for the Buckhead Boys, typescript, 1 draft incomplete, 3 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 7 drafts, 20 pages. Includes 1 page typescript notes
- Item 3: Two Poems of the Military, Folder 207

In Two Parts:
Part I: Haunting the Manuevers, typecript, 2 drafts with light revision, 3 drafts with moderate revision. 5 drafts, 12 pages. Included 1 manuscript page of notes
Part II: Drums Where I Live, typescript, 3 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 5 pages
- Item 4: Umbria, Folder 208

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 6 drafts with light revision, 10 drafts with moderate revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 22 drafts, 28 pages
- Item 5: The Underground Stream, Folder 209, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 4 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 8 pages. Alternate titles: The Motion, The Smile
- Item 6: The Vegetable King, Folder 210, 1959

- Typescript, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 6 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 17 pages. Alternate titles: Seasonal Rite, Osiris, The Vegetable God, The Return
- Item 7: Venom, Folder 211, 1969

- Typescript, 3 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision. 8 drafts, 9 pages. Includes 2 manuscript pages of notes
- Item 8: A View of Fujiyama After the War, Folder 212, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 3 drafts with moderate revision, 8 drafts with heavy revision. 11 drafts, 13 pages. Alternate title: In the Country of the Enemy, In the Enemy's Country
- Item 9: Victory, Folder 213, 1968

- Typescript, 1 draft with light revision, 4 drafts with moderate revision, 7 drafts with heavy revision. 12 drafts, 46 pages. Includes 1 typescript and 1 manuscript page of notes
- Item 10: The Vigils, Folder 214, 1955

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision. 2 drafts, 6 pages
- Item 11: Walking on Water, Folder 215, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 7 drafts with light revision, 8 drafts with moderate revision, 2 drafts with heavy revision. 18 drafts, 31 pages. Alternate titles: Poem, The Marsh
- Item 12: The War Wound, Folder 216, 1964

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 2 drafts with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 1 draft with heavy revision. 5 drafts, 5 pages
- Item 13: The Wedding, Folder 217, 1960

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 4 drafts with no revision, 3 drafts with light revision, 4 drafts with heavy revision. 11 drafts, 17 pages. Alternate title: The Heroes
- Item 14: The Wheelchair Drunk, Folder 218

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision. 4 drafts, 8 pages. Includes 1 typescript page word list
- Item 15: Why In London the Blind Are Saviors, Folder 219, 1963

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 2 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision, 3 drafts with heavy revision. 8 drafts, 11 pages. Alternate title: The Blind in London
- Item 16: Winter Trout, Folder 220, 1964

- Typescript and typescript [carbon], 1 draft with no revision, 1 draft with light revision. 2 drafts, 4 pages
- Item 17: The Wish to Be Buried Where One Has Made Love, Folder 221

- Typescript, typescript [carbon], and manuscript, 7 drafts with light revision, 2 drafts with moderate revision. 9 drafts, 9 pages. Alternate title: Landscape
- Item 18: The Work of Art, Folder 222, 1957

- Typescript [carbon], 1 draft with light revision. 1 draft, 3 pages
- Sub-Series 2: Essays

- Box 9

- Item 1: Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold, Folder 223, 1966

- Typescript draft with light revision (2 pages), typescript [carbon] draft with no revision (3 pages), and typescipt notes with autograph annotations (2 pages)
- Item 2: Edwin Arlington Robinson: The Many Truths, Folder 224, 1965

Typescript draft with moderate revision (21 pages), typescript [carbon] with no revision (22 pages), typescript notes outlining direction of essay (16 pages), autograph notes including quotations (16 pages), and News From the MacMillan Company which includes announcement of Selected poems.
First published as an Introduction to The Selected Poems..., edited by Morton Dauwen Zabel
- Item 3: The Energized Man, Folder 225

- Typescript draft with light revision (4 pages)
- Item 4: The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson, Folder 226, 1966

- Typescript draft with moderate revision (3 pages), typescript draft with light revision (2 pages), typescript [carbon] draft with light revision (4 pages)
- Item 5: The Imagination as Glory, Folder 227

- Typescript draft with light revision (10 pages)
- Item 6: Notes on the Decline of Outrage, Folder 228, 1961

- Typescript [carbon] draft with light revision - dated 1959 (24 pages), typescript biographical note (1 page)
- Item 7: The Poet Turns on Himself, Folder 229, 1966

- Typescript [photocopy] draft on Voice of America letterhead, no revision (13 pages)
- Item 8: The Poet Witnesses a Bold Mission, Folder 230, 1968

- Typescript draft with heavy revision (1 page), typescript draft with moderate revision (1 page), typescript [carbon] draft (1 page), typescript [carbon] draft with light revision - alternate title: For the Astronauts (1 page), typescript [carbon] draft with no revision (3 pages), typescript notes (1 page)
- Item 9: Reading: The Great World and the Family Circle, Folder 231

- Typescript draft with light revision (5 pages), typescript draft with moderate revision (6 pages), typescript [carbon] draft with no revision - page 5 missing (5 pages), typescript notes (2 pages)
- Item 10: Robert Frost: Man & Myth, Folder 232, 1966

- Typescript draft with moderate revision - Alternate title: The Robert Frost Story (10 pages) - 2 copies, typescript draft with moderate revision - Alernate title: The Art of Walking Blindfold With a Master (11 pages), autograph notes (3 pages), and typescript notes and outline (3 pages)
- Item 11: The Self as Agent, Folder 233, 1968

Typescript notes with autograph annotation - Alternate titles: The I of the Poem and ITs Weather, The Figure I of the Poem, The Self as (Secret) Agent (7 pages).
Typescript draft with moderate revision, incomplete, 1-12 only - Alternate title: The Self as (Poetical) Agent (12 pages)
- Item 12: The Son, the Cave, and the Burning Bush, Folder 234, 1968

Typescript [photocopy] draft with heavy revision in the hand of Paul Carroll (6 pages)
First published as the Introduction to The Young American Poets, edited by Paul Carroll
- Item 13: A Song to David by Christopher Smart, Folder 235, 1966

- Typescript [carbon] draft with no revision (3 pages), typescript draft with light revision (3 pages), typescript draft with moderate revision (3 pages), autograph notes (4 pages)
- Item 14: The Yachts by William Carlos Williams, Folder 236, 1966

- Typescript draft with moderate revision (3 pages) and typescript notes (2 pages)
- Sub-Series 3: Reviews

- Box 10

- Item 1: The Analysis of Wonderment, review of Arms of Light by Claire McAllister, Folder 237

- Typescript draft with heavy revision (2 pages) and typescript and autograph notes (1 page)
- Item 2: Dead Heroes and Their Lives, review of The Glass House: The Life of Theodore Roethke by Allan Seager, Folder 238

- Typescript [carbon] draft with light revision (12 pages), typescript [carbon] with moderate revision (8 pages), typescript draft with moderate revision (10 pages), typescript draft with light revision (11 pages), typescript draft with heavy revision - incomplete (3 pages), typescript notes and outline with autograph annotations (3 pages), autograph notes (14 pages)
- Item 3: The Death and Keys of the Censor, Folder 239

- Typescript [carbon] draft with no revision (21 pages)
- Item 4: Four Voices of the Brass Serpent by T. Carmi, No Voyage by Mary Oliver, A Time of Bees by Mona Van Duyn, and Finger of Hermes by Radcliffe Squires, Folder 240

- Typescript draft with moderate revision (5 pages), typescript [carbon] draft with no revision (3 pages), typescript notes with autograph annotations (5 pages) and autograph notes (2 pages)
- Item 5: Grim, Wild, Dazzling and Rapt, review of The Wheel of Summer by Joseph Langland, The Nesting Ground by David Wagoner, The Selected Poems of John Malcolm Brinning by John Malcolm Brinnin, and Spring of the Thief by John Logan, Folder 241

- Typescript [carbon] draft with no revision (3 pages), typescript draft with heavy revision (3 pages), typescript draft with moderate revision (3 pages), and typescript notes with autograph annotations (2 pages)
- Item 6: Intelligence as Joy, review of Tell Me, Tell Me - Granite , Steel and Other Topics by Marianne Moore, Folder 242

- Typescript draft with moderate revision (5 pages)
- Item 7: The Poetry is in the Unravelling, review of Poems to Solve by May Swenson, Folder 243

- Typescript [carbon] draft with light revision (2 pages)
- Item 8: The Secret Voice of the Average, review of Edwin Arlington Robinson: The Life of Poetry by Louise Coxe, Folder 244

- Typescript draft with light revision - incomplete (1 page), typescript draft with heavy revision (3 pages), typescript [carbon] draft with no revision (4 pages), typescript [photocopy] draft with moderate revision and correction (4 pages), typescript notes with light revision (5 pages)
- Item 9: Theodore Roethke, review of Sequence , Sometimes Metaphysical by Theodore Roethke, Folder 245

- Typescript draft with light revision (4 pages), typescript draft with moderate revision (4 pages), autograph notes (2 pages), typescript notes (1 pages)
- Item 10: Your Next Door Neighbor's Poems, Folder 246

- Typescript draft with light revision (20 pages), autograph notes (9 pages), typescript notes (10 pages)
- Item 11: Untitled Reviews, Folder 247

- Item 1: A Change of View by Philip Legler

- Typescript draft with light revision (1 page)
- Item 2: William Goodreau

- Typescript draft with light revision (1 page)
- Item 3: Western Time by Keith Wright

- Typescript draft with moderate revision (1 page)
- Item 4: Selected Poems by Derek Walcott

- Typescript draft with light revision (1 page)
- Sub-Series 4: Addresses

- Box 10

- Item 1: Introduction to a Reading by Yevegeny Yevtushenko, Folder 248, 1966: November 21

- Typescript draft with light revision (2 pages) and typescript notes (2 pages)
- Item 2: National Book Award acceptance speech, Folder 249, 1966

- Typescript draft with moderate revision (3 pages)
- Item 3: A Private Brinkmanship, Pitzer College, Calaremont, California commencement ceremonies, Folder 250, 1965: June 6

- Typescript draft with light revision (8 pages), typescript outline and notes with autograph annotations (3 pages), autograph notes (2 pages)
- Sub-Series 5: Translations

- Box 10

- Item 1: Alberti, Rafael - Death and Judgement, Folder 251

- Typescript draft with no revision (2 pages)
- Item 2: Emie, Louis - The Angel, Folder 252

- Typescript [carbon] with no revision (4 pages), typescript [carbon] of original French with autograph insert on first line (4 pages, 2 copies)
- Item 3: Supervielle, Jules - Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Folder 253

Typescript [carbon] with no revision (2 pages) and typescript [carbon] of original French (2 pages, 2 copies).
Translation possibly not by Dickey
- Item 4: Frenaud, Andre - The Peasants, Folder 254

Typescript [carbon] with no revision (4 pages) and typescript [carbon] of original French (4 pages, 2 copies)
Translation prossibly not by Dickey
- Item 5: Reverdy, Pierre - This Begins By, Folder 255

- Typescript draft with light revision (1 page)
- Sub-Series 6: Miscellaneous

- Box 10

- Item 1: Notes on Organization, Folder 256

- Typescript with autograph annotations, 1 page
- Item 2: Autobiographical sketch, written in third person, Folder 256

- Typescript with no revision, 1 page. Birth date apparently incorrect, cites 1924
- Item 3: Statement on meaning of poetry, Folder 256

- Typescript with light revision, 1 page
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