Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997
Person
Biography
American poet, philosopher, and writer.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Gregory Corso notebooks, 1960-1984
Collection
Identifier: 1978-002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of eleven notebooks which contain handwritten rough drafts of poems and letters, drawings, calculations, autobiographical notes, and in some cases, addresses and appointments. Poem titles include "Love poems to Jocelyn", "O World, Who is God", "Recollections of the 1930s", "Sadism", "I saw an angel today", "Theory on new poetics", and "The historian of the ape". Most poems are untitled. Drawings include one of Allen Ginsberg and Basil Bunting reading...
Dates:
1960 - 1984; Majority of material found within 1975 - 1977
Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, correspondence and photographs
Collection
Identifier: 1981-010
Scope and Contents
An artificial collection that consists of single and/or small groups of letters, small groups of related literary materials, individual or small groups of manuscripts such as poems and similar individual pieces which were deemed at one time to be of sufficient bulk to be placed into separate collections. These materials were acquired independently of larger collections. The period covered is primarily the first half or so of the twentieth century, but there are selected items dating well...
Dates:
1862 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1970
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