Elementi o identiteti
Signatura
Ime in lokacija skladišča
Nivo popisa
Zbirka
Naslov
Poem of the Month Club Collection
Datum/-i
- 1970-1977 (Ustvarjanje)
Obseg/količina
2 boxes (7 linear inches)
Ime ustvarjalca
Historiat ustvarjalca
The Poem of the Month Club was founded in 1970 by Jack H. Clark and Winston Fletcher. The mission of the club was to publish a "substantial and characteristic" original poem by a leading British poet. Among the poets published by the club were W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, Cecil Day-Lewis and Stevie Smith. The poems were printed on fine quality broadsides, suitable for framing, and signed by the author.
Roy Fuller, poet and Professor of at Oxford, and Cecil Day-Lewis, poet laureate, were the club's professional advisors who helped to solicit and select poems for publication. From 1970-1977 the club published four folios of twelve poems each. (The last two poems of the fourth folio were not published until 1977, although the folio is dated 1973-1974.) The Poem of the Month Club ended in 1977, a victim of declining interest and increased difficulty in finding new material.
Elementi vsebine in strukture
Obseg in vsebina
This collection consists of miscellaneous files, alphabetical files on the authors, and a complete original folio of poems. Within the first miscellaneous file is background information on the club and correspondence with Bloomsbury Book Auctions. Other miscellaneous files consist of correspondence. the author files primarily consist of correspondence between poet and club directors, contracts with the club, and proofs of the broadsides. There are originals and carbon copies in the files. Many of the letters and proofs are annotated and contain original signatures. The complete folio contains signed broadsides as well as any other material sent with the poem, such as a brief biography or note from the author regarding his poem.
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Pogoji elementov dostopa in rabe
Pogoji, ki urejajo dostop
Fizičen dostop
These materials are housed at an off-site facility and can take a minimum of 7 business days for retrieval.
Tehnični dostop
Pogoji, ki urejajo reproduciranje
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Jeziki gradiva
- angleščina
Pisave gradiva
Opombe o jeziku in pisavi
Pripomočki za uporabo
Elementi glede pridobitve in ocene
Historiat fonda
Neposreden vir, od katerega se gradivo prevzema
The collection of files (excluding the folio) was purchased by Texas A&M University from Jack Clark through Bloomsbury Book Auctions in 1994. The folio was purchased in 1993.
Dodatno pridobivanje gradiva
Elementi povezanih materialov
Obstoj in lokacija izvirnikov
Obstoj in lokacija kopij
Sorodna arhivska gradiva
Povezani opisi
Element o opombah
Strokovne opombe
- Obdelovanje informacij: For preservation purposes, all broadside proofs were removed from their respective file folders and placed in a flat archival box during processing. In addition, the complete Poem of the Month Club folio was placed in the same box.
Alternativen/-ni identifikator/-ji
Element nadzorovanega opisa
Pravila ali dogovori
Uporabljeni viri
Opomba arhivarja
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