Carl Woodring papers
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
- Creation: 1894-2009
Creator
- Woodring, Carl, 1919-2009 (Person)
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
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
- Series I: Diaries, 1894-2008
- Series II: Biographical materials, 1936-2009
- Series III: Photographs, 1905-2009
- Series IV: Works by Woodring, 1947-2009
- Series V: Correspondence, 1960-2009
- Series VI: Oversize
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated by the estate of Carl Woodring in September and October of 2009.
- 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
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu