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American poetry -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 32 Collections and/or Records:

A. Sherman Christensen journals

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1923 Series 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

Contains diaries, professional and private correspondence, speeches, essays, poetry, and histories. The materials relate to Christensen's personal life and to his work as a lawyer and as a jurist. Also includes private correspondence, primarily between Christensen and other family members, especially his wife, Lois.

Dates: 1920-1995

A. Sherman Christensen miscellaneous legal correspondence

 Series — Box 23: Series 6; Series 7 [Barcode: 31197227641617], Folder: 1-2b
Identifier: MSS 1923 Series 6
Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence with BYU Law School officials and other legal colleagues.

Dates: 1920-1995

The abominations of Yondo

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346337]
Identifier: MSS 378
Scope and Contents

Typewritten drafts with handwritten corrections of the story "The Abominations of Yondo" and the poem "The Ghoul and the Seraph."

Dates: 1925

Bertha E. Anderson letters and poems

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197231238210]
Identifier: MSS 6689
Scope and Contents

Poems and letters from Bertha E. Anderson to Emily Rossnagle Monahan and Lillian Rossnagle Huhne, several of which are holiday poems.

Dates: circa 1960-1975

Joseph W. Booth diaries and poems

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 155
Scope and Contents

Handwritten diaries and poems. These journals were kept from 1885 to 1928 when Booth was in Alpine, Utah, at the Brigham Young Academy in Provo, Utah, and in Turkey and Armenia as a missionary and as mission president.

Dates: 1885-1916

Claude Buck papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2736
Scope and Contents

Reviews, sketches, poems, notes, family histories, and magazine articles. The materials relate to Buck's work as an artist. The notes relate to the composition of some of his art work, and the articles and reviews relate to analyses of his art.

Dates: 1930-1982

Vincent Godfrey Burns papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 833
Scope and Contents

Poems, newspaper clippings, songs, pamphlets, a script, and programs. Also included are copies of "The Rainbow: Maryland's Poetry Magazine." The materials relate to Bruns' career as a poet and as a writer.

Dates: 1936-1969

Orson Scott Card papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1756
Scope and Contents

Literary papers, including manuscripts of published and unpublished works (novels, short stories, plays, poetry, nonfiction). Also included are works of other authors that Card has commented on, correspondence, and personal papers. Also included are scripts and other materials pertaining to the production of the 1989 motion picture The abyss (directed by James Cameron), which Card used to write the novel of the same name.

Dates: 1966-2011

A. Sherman Christensen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1923
Scope and Contents

Contains diaries, professional and private correspondence, speeches, essays, poetry, and histories. The materials relate to Christensen's personal life and to his work as a lawyer and as a jurist. Also includes private correspondence, primarily between Christensen and other family members, especially his wife, Lois.

Dates: 1920-1995

Marden J. Clark autobiography

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230331453]
Identifier: MSS SC 3015
Scope and Contents

Autobiography details memories of his childhood in Morgan, Utah; his love of literature; attendence at BYU; work as a truck driver; marriage; teaching at BYU; travels; church service; and political views. Includes significant information about his family. Also includes poetry composed by Marden J. Clark.

Dates: 1999