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Carl Woodring papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 551
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please contact woodson@rice.edu for access.

Scope and Contents

The Carl Woodring papers collection includes family diaries, family and career-related photographs, personal and literary correspondence, and works written by Woodring.

Dates

  • 1894-2009

Creator

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Conditions Governing Access

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish from the Carl Woodring papers must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Rice University.

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Carl Ray Woodring (1919-2009), earned a B.A. from Rice University in Houston, Texas in 1940, and followed with an M.A in 1942. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1949, He was a Woodberry Professor of Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University. He was accorded many distinctions including the Phi Beta Kappa Christian Gauss award (1971) for his book on William Wordsworth, Politics in English Romantic Poetry, and a Ford Foundation grant for 1955-56 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for 1958-59. Considered a renowned authority on the Romantic Period in English Literature, Woodring is the author of numerous other articles and books including Nature into Art; Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth Century Britain (1989), Politics in the Poetry of Coleridge (1961), Wordsworth (1965), Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge for the Collected Coleridge, 2 vols. (1990), and (co-editor) The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry (1994).

Extent

9 Linear Feet (9 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract:

This collection contains nine boxes of material related to the life and career of Carl Woodring, Professor of Literature, Emeritus, at Columbia University. The collection includes family diaries, family and career-related photographs, personal and literary correspondence, and works written by Woodring.

Arrangement

The material is organized into six series.

Missing Title

  1. Series I: Diaries, 1894-2008
  2. Series II: Biographical materials, 1936-2009
  3. Series III: Photographs, 1905-2009
  4. Series IV: Works by Woodring, 1947-2009
  5. Series V: Correspondence, 1960-2009
  6. Series VI: Oversize

Acquisition Information

This collection was donated by the estate of Carl Woodring in September and October of 2009.

Related Material

Related to this collection is the extensive collection of books, paintings, catalogs and research materials Woodring donated to the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Libary, Rice University in 2004, called the Ricketts and Shannon Collection, 1846-2002. See http://library.rice.edu/collections/WRC/finding-aids/manuscripts/0513.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Carl Woodring papers, 1894-2009
Status
Completed
Date
2009
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

https://library.rice.edu/woodson
Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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