Beinecke Collections

 

 

A conference to be held at Yale University, October 20 & 21, 2007 Detailed information is available online at: Poetics and Politics in Yehuda Amichai's World

The Yale Collection of American Literature has acquired an important archive of correspondence by and about early twentieth century American writers. The archive, gathered by Eugene L. Delafield (1907-2001) , a New York book collector, centers on poets and editors, chiefly William Rose Benet and his sister Laura, Alfred Kreymborg, and Leonora Speyer. Included are letters from Conrad Aiken, Maxwell Bodenheim, Marianne Moore.