Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
2. Kael, Pauline
3. Lubin, Bradley
4. Alcalay, Ammiel
5. Mangum, Megan
6. City University of New York. Center for the Humanities, publisher.
7. Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

1. 2 volumes (52, 50 pages) : portraits, facsimiles; 23 cm.

Summary

1. "Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan met in the 1930s as students at the University of California-Berkeley. After both dropped out, they maintained a six year correspondence recording the trials, excitements, and discoveries of life after Berkeley. The Selected Letters, 1945-46 captures their singular friendship and the mutual interests and sensibilities that united them. Highlights include a dialogue on reading Herman Melville’s Pierre; reflections by Duncan on farm-life in Northern California; notes on his preparation of his manuscript The Years as Catches and Kael’s work on a play; and from New York, Kael’s reportage on art-shows, films, music, and discussion meetings tied to Dwight Macdonald’s journal Politics." --Publisher's website.

Series statement

1. Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; series 4, number 4, Fall 2013

Uniform title

1. Lost and Found, The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative ; ser. 4, no. 4.
2. Woodberry Poetry Room Blue Star collection of books and manuscripts.

Alternative title

1. That lettrous mountain of friendship : the selected letters of Pauline Kael and Robert Duncan, 1945-1946

Subject

1. Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988
2. Kael, Pauline
3. Kael, Pauline > Correspondence
4. Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988 > Correspondence
5. Film critics > United States > Correspondence
6. Poets, American > 20th century > Correspondence

Genre/Form

1. Chapbooks, American – 21st century.
2. Chapbooks – New York (State) – New York – 2013.

Contents

1. Part I: Introduction -- Editor's note -- The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part I) -- Endnotes -- Biographical notes ; Part II: The selected correspondence of Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan, 1945-1946 (Part II) -- Endnotes -- Biographical notes.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain