James Dickey Papers (MSS035), 1954-1996 | MSS Manuscripts

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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

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence, 1954-1970],
[Series 2: Manuscripts],
[Series 3: Material Toward Books],
[Series 4: Manuscript by Others],
[Series 5: Personal Papers],
[Series 6: Ephemera],
[Series 7: Audiovisual],
[All]

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