James Applewhite papers, 1963-2010

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Summary

Creator:
Applewhite, James
Abstract:
James Applewhite is a poet and professor emeritus of English at Duke University. The collection is comprised of manuscripts, drafts, and proofs of poems, as well as notes, correspondence, clippings, and printed materials (including serials and anthologies). The collection documents Applewhite's work as a poet and professor of English at Duke University, including his research about Wordsworth. Manuscripts in the collection include Lessons in Soaring: Poems, A History of the River: Poems, and River Writing: An Eno Journal.
Extent:
13 Linear Feet
9825 Items
Language:
Material in English
Collection ID:
RL.10163

Background

Biographical / historical:

James W. Applewhite is a poet and professor emeritus of English at Duke University. He has published several books, including Statues of the Grass (1975), Following Gravity (1980), Foreseeing the Journey (1983), Seas and Inland Journeys: Landscape and Consciousness from Wordsworth to Roethke (1985), River Writing: An Eno Journal (1988), Lessons in Soaring (1989), Daytime and Starlight (1997), Selected Poems (2005), and A Diary of Altered Light (2006).

Chronology List
Date Event
1958
B.A., Duke University
1960
M.A., Duke University
1960-1963
Instructor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1967-1971
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1969
Ph.D., Duke University
1970
National Endowment for the Arts Award
1972
Assistant Professor, Duke University
1974-1975
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975
Associate Professor, Duke University
1976-1977
Guggenheim Fellowship
1979
Associated Writing Programs Contemporary Poetry Prize
1982-1985
Director of the Institute of the Arts, Duke University
1986
North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship
1988
Professor, Duke University
1992
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Jean Stein Award in Poetry
1995
North Carolina Award in Literature
1995
Election to the Fellowship of Southern Writers
2008
Induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
2009
Emeritus Professor, Duke University
Acquisition information:
The James Applewhite Papers were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 1993 and 2010.
Processing information:

Processed by Meghan Lyon, September 2010

Encoded by Meghan Lyon, September 2010

Materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

Accessions included in this collection: 1993-0285 and 2010-0155

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