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The Meredith collection documents the life and work of one of Connecticut College's most eminent faculty members and one of the nation's most respected poets. The William Meredith Papers at Connecticut College consist of letters, drafts, and speeches, together with papers relating to many organizations with which Meredith has been associated. These include the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Connecticut College, Princeton University, Yaddo, the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, cultural and governmental agencies in Bulgaria, and the Estate of W. H. Auden.
The papers were acquired by Connecticut College in 1994, and are located in the Special Collections department of the Charles E. Shain Library. One may consult the collection by arrangement with the Special Collections Librarian. The Library also has a virtually complete collection of Meredith's published work, including many of the anthologies and issues of literary journals in which individual poems have been published or reprinted. The book collection also includes presentation copies of Frost's poetry given to Meredith by the author, several with inscriptions and holograph poems.
The William Meredith Papers contain letters from the following people. A selection of letters is available for review.
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Dannie and Joan Abse
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A.R. Ammons
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Hannah Arendt
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John Balaban
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James Baldwin
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John Barth
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Donald Barthelme
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Saul Bellow
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John Berryman |
Katherine Biddle
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Elizabeth Bishop |
Philip Booth
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John Malcolm Brinnin
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Cleanth Brooks |
Gwendolyn Brooks
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Frederick Buechner
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Stanley Burnshaw
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Henry Chapin
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Mary Cheever
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John Ciardi
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Bill Clinton
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Robert Coles
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Michael Collier
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Malcolm Cowley
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Louis Coxe
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William Davenport
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Peter Davison
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Norman Dello Joio
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James Dickey
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Elizabeth Drew
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Alan Dugan
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David Dwyer
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Richard Eberhart
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Ralph Ellison
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David Ferry
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David Fisher
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Lukas Foss
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Claude Fredericks
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Anne Fremantle
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Brendan Galvin
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George Garrett
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Reginald Gibbons
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Margaret Gibson
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Sidney Goldfarb
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William Goldman
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Gary Gildner
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Moses Hadas
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Donald Hall
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Jules Hallum
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Michael Harper
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Seamus Heaney
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Anthony Hecht
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Lillian Hellman
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John Hersey
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William Heyen
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Daniel Hoffman
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Cecelia Holland
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John Hollander
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Richard Howard
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Barbara Howes
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David Ignatow
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John Irving
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David Jackson
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Josephine Jacobsen
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Mary Jarrell
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Randall Jarrell
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Gayl Jones
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June Jordan
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Donald Justice
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X.J. Kennedy
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Galway Kinnell
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Lincoln Kirstein
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Carolyn Kizer
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Maxine Kumin
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Stanley Kunitz
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Denise Levertov
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Romulus Linney
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Robert Lowell
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Archibald MacLeish
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Clarence Major
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Gerard Malanga
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Eve Merriam
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James Merrill
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George Martin
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James Martin
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William Maxwell
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David McKain
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W.S. Merwin
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Frederick Morgan
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Kathleen Morrison
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S.F. Morse
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Howard Moss
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Howard Nemerov
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John Frederick Nims
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L. B. Noll
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Tim O'Brien
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Norman Holmes Pearson
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Robert Pinsky
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Alan Pryce-Jones
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Alexis Rannit
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John Crowe Ransom
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David Ray
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Shreela Ray
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F.D. Reeve
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Helen Reeve
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Tim Reynolds
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Adrienne Rich
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Hyman Rickover
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Michael Ridgway
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Jeremy Robson
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Helga Sandburg
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Reginald Saner
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Karl Shapiro
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Louis Simpson
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Elizabeth Munro Smith
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William Jay Smith
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Barry Spacks
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W. D. Snodgrass
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Barry Spacks
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Stephen Spender
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Francis Steegmuller
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Mark Strand
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Dabney Stuart
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William Styron
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Robert Sward
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May Swenson
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Peter Tempest
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Randall Thompson
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Harold Tinkle
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Phyllis Tinkle
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Diana Trilling
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Lionel Trilling
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Lewis Turco
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Lee Udall
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Stewart Udall
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Lewis Untermeyer
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John Updike
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Mark Van Doren
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Mona Van Duyn
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Gore Vidal
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Kurt Vonnegut
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Diane Wakowski
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Alice Walker
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David Walker
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Robert Penn Warren
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Rosanna Warren
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William Weaver
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Jim Weil
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Glenway Wescott
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Reed Whittemore
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Richard Wilbur
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Miller Williams
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