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A. Walton Litz Papers, 1969-1993: Finding Aid
C0955
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Summary Information
- Creator:
- Litz, A. Walton.
- Title and dates:
- A. Walton Litz Papers
- 1969-1993
- Abstract:
- A. Walton Litz was a member of the Princeton Class of 1951, and later became the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton, where he taught from 1956-1993 (?). Consists of Litz's English literature course materials and preliminary chapters for the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7 (2000), edited by Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey.
- Size:
- 4.4 linear feet
- 4 record center cartons, 1 archival box
- Call number:
- C0955
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections.
Manuscripts Division
Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA - Language(s) of materials:
- English
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored offsite at the ReCAP facility.
Biography
A. Walton Litz (1929- ), Princeton Class of '51, was the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton University, where he taught from 1956-1993 (?). He earned his Ph.D. from Oxford University while he was there on a Rhodes Scholarship (1951-1954). Litz has written or edited more than twenty volumes, including The Art of James Joyce, Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development, Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens, Modern Literary Criticism, 1900-1970, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, and the Prentice-Hall Anthology of American Literature. He has received grants and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Danforth Foundation (E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society.
Description
This collection consists of the English literature course materials of A. Walton Litz. Included are his lecture notes on topics in modern literature, modern American poetry, modern British poetry, and the history of literary criticism, as well as syllabi, reading lists, handouts, and other reference material. There are also four preliminary chapters for the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7 (2000), edited by Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey. The files (in 4 record center cartons and 1 archive box, totaling 4.4 linear feet) are arranged in the same order as originally found in Litz's filing cabinets in his Firestone Library office. Professor Thomas Roche of the Princeton University English Department provided additional information on the English undergraduate and graduate classes and seminars taught by Litz during his years at Princeton.
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Subject Headings
These materials have been indexed in the Princeton University Library online catalog using the following terms. Those seeking related materials should search under these terms.
- Princeton University -- Faculty -- 20th century.
- American poetry -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
- English literature -- Study and teaching -- New Jersey -- Princeton -- 20th century.
- Literature -- History and criticism.
- Lectures.
- Reading lists.
- Syllabi.
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Contents List
Introduction (English 206: Modern Literature), undated
Box 1 Frost: Poetry or Metaphor, undated
Box 1 Frost's Development, undated
Box 1 Frost: The Tragic and The Comic, undated
Box 1 English 206: Syllabus, Reserve Lists, undated
Box 1 The Expatriates, undated
Box 1 Hemingway - A Style for His Time, undated
Box 1 Hemingway's Career, undated
Box 1 Eliot's Development (Early Verse), undated
Box 1 Early Eliot, undated
Box 1 Eliot's Later Verse, undated
Box 1 D. H. Lawrence, undated
Box 1 Eliot: The Waste Land, undated
Box 1 Wallace Stevens: The Poetry of Earth (2 folders), undated
Box 1 Stevens: Imagination as Value, undated
Box 1 Wallace Stevens: The Dimensions of Harmonism, undated
Box 1 Stevens: The Poet as Painter, undated
Box 1 Stevens' Development, undated
Box 1 Stevens' “From the Journal of Crispin”, undated
Box 1 Stevens I, undated
Box 1 Stevens II, undated
Box 1 Stevens III, undated
Box 1 Stevens IV/Hardy, undated
Box 1 Notes on Notes Toward A Supreme Fiction (Stevens), undated
Box 1 James Joyce: “I am of Ireland”, undated
Box 1 Unity of Dubliners, undated
Box 1 Joyce's Portrait, undated
Box 1 Dubliners / Portrait, undated
Box 1 Ulysses & Finnegan's Wake, undated
Box 1 Yeats's Development, undated
Box 1 Yeats's Private Vision, undated
Box 1 Yeats's Symbolism, undated
Box 1 Yeats: The Tower, undated
Box 1 T. S. Eliot/Ezra Pound/Jules Laforgue, undated
Box 1 English 344 - Introduction to Modern British Poetry, undated
Box 1 What was Modernism?, undated
Box 1 English 364: Introduction (Modern American Poetry), undated
Box 1 English 364 Handouts, undated
Box 1 English 364 Final Lecture, undated
Box 1 English 364 (Modern American Poetry Final Exam), undated
Box 1 Stevens/Williams (last lecture), undated
Box 1 Williams, undated
Box 1 Williams, undated
Box 1 Paterson, undated
Box 1 Paterson lecture, undated
Box 1 Spring and All (by WCW, ), 1923
Box 1 English 320: Introductory Lecture, 1974 Spring
Box 1 The Cantos (Canto I), undated
Box 1 Eliot's Extension Lectures, undated
Box 1 The Waste Land (I & II), undated
Box 1 The Waste Land: Eliot's Second Birth, undated
Box 1 Modern Criticism Seminar, 1969 Fall
Box 2 English 546 Bibliography (Special Studies), undated
Box 2 320 Lecture (I), undated
Box 2 English 568 Criticism, undated
Box 2 313 Introductory Lecture (History of Literary Criticism), undated
Box 2 Aristotle - Plato: The Foundations of Classicism, undated
Box 2 Aristotle's Poetics, undated
Box 2 Horace - Longinus and Rhetoric, undated
Box 2 Medieval Poetic Theory, undated
Box 2 Elizabethan Criticism, undated
Box 2 The Rise of Neo-Classicism, undated
Box 2 Dryden, undated
Box 2 Johnson, undated
Box 2 18th Century Criticism, undated
Box 2 From Neo-Classicism to Romanticism, undated
Box 2 Wordsworth & Coleridge: The Language of Poetry, undated
Box 2 Coleridge as Critic, undated
Box 2 Coleridge: The Psychology of Poetry, undated
Box 2 English Romantic Criticism, undated
Box 2 Arnold, undated
Box 2 Art for Art's Sake, undated
Box 2 The Art of Fiction, undated
Box 2 Naturalism and Humanism, undated
Box 2 Croce and Expressionism, undated
Box 2 Ezra Pound, undated
Box 2 I. A. Richards, undated
Box 2 Formal and Analytical Criticism, undated
Box 2 Eliot, undated
Box 2 Historical Criticism, undated
Box 2 English 313 - Northrop Frye, undated
Box 2 Psychological/Archetypal Criticism, undated
Box 2 English 202 Syllabi, undated
Box 2 English 546: Special Studies in late 18th century - early 19th century Literature, undated
Box 2 Graduate Criticism Reading Lists, undated
Box 2 Hermeneutic Criticism, undated
Box 2 Richards' Criticism, undated
Box 2 New Criticism (Empson), undated
Box 2 Criticism of Fiction, undated
Box 2 Leavis & Scrutiny, undated
Box 2 Pound's Criticism, undated
Box 2 Northrop Frye, undated
Box 2 New Humanism, undated
Box 2 New Historicism, undated
Box 2 Historical Criticism, undated
Box 2 Freud & Jung: Psychological and Archetypal Criticism, undated
Box 2 Spatial Form in Narrative, undated
Box 2 Eliot's Criticism, undated
Box 2 Structuralism & After, undated
Box 2 Marxist Criticism, undated
Box 2 Reader Response Criticism, undated
Box 2 Northrop Frye, undated
Box 2 Biographical Criticism, undated
Box 2 Faulkner: Collected Stories, undated
Box 2 Modern Literary Criticism, 1971 Fall
Box 2 Criticism, Seminar, 1981
Box 2 All Souls College, Oxford, undated
Box 2 Old Checking Account, undated
Box 2 Pound and Eliot as American Poets, undated
Box 2 Eliot and Pound as American Poets, undated
Box 2 Oxford lecture (“Williams and Stevens: The Quest for a Native American Modernism”), undated
Box 2 C.V. and Publications, undated
Box 2 TLS Modernism Review, undated
Box 2 Salzburg Lectures, undated
Box 2 Pound/R. P. Blackmur, undated
Box 2 Mauberley (Ezra Pound's Hugh Selwyn Mauberley), undated
Box 2 Eliot's Career, undated
Box 2 The Waste Land, undated
Box 2 Eliot Lecture, undated
Box 2 Tomlinson letters, undated
Box 2 Yale Pound Archive, undated
Box 3 Brown EP Lecture, undated
Box 3 Modernism Lecture, undated
Box 3 Faulkner: Go Down, Moses, undated
Box 3 Some Remarks (Order and Myth), undated
Box 3 Notes / Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (essay on Stevens), undated
Box 3 English 364 (labeled 558--graduate version of the course), undated
Box 3 English 206 Exams, undated
Box 3 Absalom, Absalom notes, undated
Box 3 Yeats & Joyce, 1983
Box 3 Yeats & Joyce, 1985
Box 3 Yeats & Joyce, undated
Box 3 Joyce: Poems and Shorter Writings, undated
Box 3 Yeats & Joyce Talk, undated
Box 3 New Criticism (II), undated
Box 3 Chicago Critics, undated
Box 3 Faulkner: Yoknapatawpha Legend, undated
Box 3 Pound Obituary, undated
Box 3 Recent Literary Criticism, undated
Box 3 Finnegan's Wake, undated
Box 3 Yeats & Joyce, undated
Box 3 Cambridge Afterword, undated
Box 3 Library Chronicle, undated
Box 3 Wallace Stevens Paper (“Compass and Curriculum”: Teaching Stevens Among the Moderns), undated
Box 3 Yeats and the Tragic Generation: Bibliography of Irish Renaissance, undated
Box 3 Yeats's Mythologies, undated
Box 3 Yeats's Tower, undated
Box 3 Yeats: Tragic Joy, undated
Box 3 Yeats's Personae (1), undated
Box 3 Yeats's Personae (2), undated
Box 3 The Tower Poems (I&II), undated
Box 3 Last Poems (Yeats), undated
Box 3 Pound's Early Verse, undated
Box 3 English 364 (Modern British Poetry), undated
Box 3 Wild Swans at Coole = Michael Robartes and the Dancer (Yeats), undated
Box 3 A Vision (Yeats), undated
Box 3 English 344: Modern British Poetry, undated
Box 3 English 344, undated
Box 3 English 320 (Modern British Poetry) Reading Lists & Syllabi, undated
Box 3 English 321 (Modern American Poetry), undated
Box 3 Hollow Men to Ash Wednesday, undated
Box 3 The Symbolism of Poetry, undated
Box 3 London 1909 / Imagism, 1909
Box 3 English 320 Examinations, undated
Box 3 Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (Pound), undated
Box 3 Composition of Four Quartets (Eliot), undated
Box 3 Eliot: Four Quartets, undated
Box 3 English 206: Yeats' Private Vision, undated
Box 3 Eliot and F.H. Bradley, undated
Box 3 Eliot Folder, undated
Box 3 Ms. Info (includes dissertation prospectus by, and some correspondence with, Louis (Luke) Menand), undated
Box 3 Eliot misc., undated
Box 3 Ron Bush essay (Pound), undated
Box 3 Eliot's Early Poems, undated
Box 4 Clark Lectures (Eliot's articles about poetry in The Listener), undated
Box 4 Waste Land tape (‘Withered stumps of time’: Allusion, Reading, and Writing in “The Waste Land” by John Paul Riquelme), undated
Box 4 Litz 101 Notes on Ash Wednesday, undated
Box 4 Litz #14 Mauberley (c. 1), undated
Box 4 Litz #14 Mauberley (c. 2), undated
Box 4 Four Quartets, undated
Box 4 Pound's early Verse (English 588), undated
Box 4 Four Quartets and Eliot's Criticism, undated
Box 4 Pound: 1917 Cantos, 1917
Box 4 Waste Land (misc. material), undated
Box 4 The Foreground of British Poetry, undated
Box 4 Four Quartets (I & II), undated
Box 4 Early Cantos, undated
Box 4 Dylan Thomas (I & II), undated
Box 4 Philip Larkin, undated
Box 4 World War I Poetry, undated
Box 4 Retrospect (essay about modern British poetry; M.L. Rosenthal article in TLS ), 1970 January 29
Box 4 Philip Larkin, undated
Box 4 British Poetry: Viewpoint, 1950
Box 4 Hart Crane, undated
Box 4 English 320 - Last Lecture, undated
Box 4 Georgian and War Poetry, undated
Box 4 Robert Graves, undated
Box 4 D. H. Lawrence, undated
Box 4 Eliot & Tennyson, undated
Box 4 Oxford 1928 (Auden material), 1928
Box 4 English Poetry After WWII, undated
Box 4 Auden's Recent Verse, undated
Box 4 Auden at Work, undated
Box 4 Auden's Two Cities / Poetry as a Means of Grace, undated
Box 4 Auden, undated
Box 4 R. P. Blackmur / Ezra Pound (The Making of The Waste Land), undated
Box 4 Marcia Nardi Letters (from William Carlos Williams), undated
Box 4 Yeats & Joyce: Brooklyn, undated
Box 4 Wilma(?) Theatre Travesties (Tom Stoppard play at Aldwych Theatre, 1974 June; James Joyce material), 1974 June
Box 4 Yeats & Joyce, 1982
Box 4 Eliot: The Allusive Poet, undated
Box 4 Groden Guides: Bios of R. P. Blackmur, Ezra Pound, undated
Box 4 “The Pure Good of Theory” (South Atlantic MLA), undated
Box 4 Yale Review: Eliot essay, undated
Box 4 Eliot's Art of Allusion (“The Allusive Poet: Eliot and his Sources”), undated
Box 4 Eliot: Pasadena/St. Louis Lecture (“The Allusive Poet: Eliot and his Sources”), undated
Box 4 Venice Talk: Joyce and Pound, undated
Box 4 “The Making of The Waste Land”, undated
Box 4 MLA Notes Lecture, undated
Box 4 WBY (Yeats' material), undated
Box 4 The Meaning of Modernism, undated
Box 4 Origins of Modernism, undated
Box 4 Pound, undated
Box 4 Joyce, undated
Box 4 Research Seminar Spring 1987 (syllabus for English 558, 1988 Fall - Pound, Eliot. Stevens, Williams), 1987, 1988 Fall
Box 4 Research Seminar (Pound and Eliot material), undated
Box 4 Seminar (Pound, Yeats, Eliot material), undated
Box 4 Eliot (English 364, Oxford lectures?), undated
Box 5 “Fair Use of Unpublished Works: Scholarly Research and Case Law Since 1992” (published in Tulsa Law Journal) by Robert Spoo, one of Litz's former students who is now a copyright lawyer), undated
Box 5 Preliminary chapters for the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7, published in 2000 and edited by Louis (“Luke”) Menand, A. Walton Litz, and Lawrence Rainey, undated
(2) “T. S. Eliot” by Louis Menand (includes TLS by “Luke” to “Walt,” ), undated
Box 5 (4) “Criticism and the Academy” by Wally Martin (includes photocopy of TLS by Martin to Menand, ), 1988
Box 5 (5) “Southern New Critics” by William E. Cain (includes ANS by “Luke” to “Walt” on photocopied TLS by Cain to “Luke,” 1991) [Note: Cain was replaced by Mark Jancovitch in the published edition.], 1991
Box 5 (7) “Burke” by Eugene Goodheart (includes photocopy of 1 TLS by Litz to Gene, 1987, and 3 ALsS by Goodheart to Litz, 1987), 1987, 1987
Box 5 1 folder of postcards, 1 photo of Pound's grave, undated
Box 5 3 folders of various posters (folded up) from conferences that Litz attended, undated
Box 5
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