Donald Finkel papers, 1947-1983 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Consists of the literary papers of this prominent American poet who served as Poet-in-Residence at Washington University from 1960 onward. Included are more than 2000 pages of manuscript drafts of individual poems and material toward Finkel's ten volumes of verse. Also included are notebooks, research materials and an extensive file of professional and literary correspondence. Correspondents include James Dickey, George P. Elliott, John Gardner, Pamela White Hadas, Anthony Hecht, Richard Howard, Philip Levine, W.S. Merwin, Howard Nemerov, Karl Shapiro, Gary Snyder, Mark Strand, Robert Sward, May Swenson, Constance Urdang, Mona Van Duyn, and Theodore Weiss, among many others