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Preliminary Inventory of the James Applewhite Papers, 1963-2010

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.

Descriptive Summary

Repository
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
Creator
Applewhite, James.
Title
James Applewhite Papers, 1963-2010
Language of Material
English
Extent
13 Linear Feet, 9825 Items
Location
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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.

There is no boxlist for this accession. Access is RESTRICTED: Written permission is required to view correspondence and business records.

Accession (1993-0285)
Box 1-5

Includes correspondence files, writings (both published materials and drafts), photographs, biographical/bibliographical lists and files, and other miscellaneous materials.

Contains correspondence with literary figures and publishers. Frequent correspondents include Dave Smith, Donald Hall, Dabney Stuart, Fred Chappell, Robert Bly, James Dickey, Michael McFee, Gibbons Ruark, and others. Also includes 1 folder of Pulitzer Prize jury correspondence. This material has been loosely arranged into folders by year, but has not been sorted by date within each folder.

This material may be RESTRICTED. Contact Research Services with questions.

Correspondence, dates unknown
Box 6
Loose poetry sent and received, dates unknown
Box 6
Correspondence, 1960s
Box 6
Correspondence, 1970-1976 (7 folders)
Box 6
Correspondence, 1977-1984 (10 folders)
Box 7
Correspondence, 1985-2005 (9 folders)
Box 8
Pulitzer Prize jury correspondence, 1977-1979
Box 8

Applewhite's publications in poetry journals and other anthologies.

"The Door, The Wind," and "Station and Flame," The Above Ground Review, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1968
Box 9
"An Episode of War" and "Versions of Sunlight," Granite, No. 1, Spring 1971
Box 9
"A Long Poem" and "Selections from Notebooks," Crazy Horse 12, 1972
Box 9
"At Raleigh Memorial Gardens (Post Christian Era)," The Back Door, No. 7/8, 1975
Box 9
"Visit with Artina," Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 1975
Box 9
"Desire," The Agni Review 4, 1975
Box 9
"The Rescue," Sandlapper, Vol. 9, No. 2, February 1976
Box 9
"Elegy for a General Store" and "Woman in the Wind Knows," Vanderbilt Poetry Review, No. 3/4, 1977
Box 9
"Following Gravity," The Cold Mountain Review, Vol. 5, Fall 1977
Box 9
"Seven Poems," The South Carolina Review, Vol. 10, April 1978
Box 9
"A Broken Lake" broadside, 1983
Box 9
"The Body Garden," Mudfish, 1984
Box 9
"Accident of Inheritance," The Ohio Review, No. 45, 1990
Box 9
"Botanical Garden: The Coastal Plains" and "The Mortal Father," The Southern Review, Vol. 33, No. 1, Winter 1997
Box 9
"On Winslow Homer's 'Weaning the Calf,'" Southern Cultures, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 1997
Box 9
"Poet to Poet: The Perspective of Poetic Voice," The Writer, December 1997
Box 9
"Hank Williams Dream," "Birdfoot," and "Rain from a Hurricane," The Southern Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, Spring 2002
Box 9
"River-Ruin," "The Vanished Farmhouse," "Christmas by the River," "Fall Will," "Looking Up from the Woodland Clearing," and "Ceremony at Heroes' Square," North Carolina Literary Review, No. 13, 2003
Box 9
"Blossoming Poplars," North Carolina Literary Review, No. 19, 2010
Box 9
"My Grandfather's Funeral," in Leland H. Roloff's The Perception and Evolution of Literature, 1973
Box 10
"Poems," North Carolina Literary Review, No. 6, 1997
Box 10
"Birthday Poem," Cold Mountain Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, Fall 2007
Box 10

Mostly consists of loose poetry and other manuscripts. Includes manuscript drafts for "Following Gravity," "Iron Age Flying," "A Journal of Sunlight," "Steps to the Stream," "Driving through the Country America that is Vanishing," "Landmind," "Gift of Inheritance and Other Poems," as well as some drafts of essays and articles. Other materials include Applewhite's notebooks and notepads, many with poetry or drafts, as well as some with notes, schedules, to-do lists, and other miscellaneous writings.

Reviews (photocopied compilations) of Applewhite's works, 1975-1987
Box 10
Articles and essays, 1985-1986 and undated
Box 10
Photocopies, undated
Box 10
Loose poems, undated (3 folders)
Box 10
Statues of the Grass manuscript
Box 10
Following Gravity, undated (3 folders)
Box 11
Iron Age Flying, undated (5 folders)
Box 11
Untitled book draft, undated
Box 11
A Journal of Sunlight, undated
Box 11
Steps to the Stream, undated
Box 11
Steps to the Stream (2 folders)
Box 12
Driving through the Country America that is Vanishing, 1973 and undated (3 folders)
Box 12
Landmind, undated (2 folders)
Box 12
Gift of Inheritance and Other Poems, undated
Box 12
The Magic Life essay
Box 12
Loose poems, undated (6 folders)
Box 12
Unpublished novel: Alive in Time, undated (3 folders)
Box 13
Driving through the Country America that is Vanishing, undated (2 folders)
Box 13
Legal notepads with drafts and ideas (10 folders)
Box 13
A History of the River, 1988
Box 14
Notepads with drafts and ideas, 1988-1991 and undated (3 folders)
Box 14

Includes Applewhite's research files and some research papers, his applications for various fellowships, and recommendations he wrote for his students. Also includes biographical and bibliographical details, photographs, newspaper clippings, and magazine addresses.

This material may be RESTRICTED. Contact Research Services with questions.

Research papers, 1963-1964
Box 14
Notes for thesis/dissertation (15 folders)
Box 14
Applications for fellowships
Box 15
Recommendations by Applewhite (2 folders)
Box 15
Bibliographical/biographical materials, 1970s-1980s (3 folders)
Box 15
Magazine addresses, 1960s-1970s
Box 15
Photographs, 1960s-1970s
Box 15
Newspaper clippings, 1969-1971
Box 15

Historical Note

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

DateEvent(s)
1958B.A., Duke University
1960M.A., Duke University
1960-1963Instructor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1967-1971Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1969Ph.D., Duke University
1970National Endowment for the Arts Award
1972Assistant Professor, Duke University
1974-1975National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1975Associate Professor, Duke University
1976-1977Guggenheim Fellowship
1979Associated Writing Programs Contemporary Poetry Prize
1982-1985Director of the Institute of the Arts, Duke University
1986North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship
1988Professor, Duke University
1992American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters' Jean Stein Award in Poetry
1995North Carolina Award in Literature
1995Election to the Fellowship of Southern Writers
2008Induction into the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame
2009Emeritus Professor, Duke University

Subject Headings

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], James Applewhite Papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Provenance

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

This collection is minimally processed: materials may not have been ordered and described beyond their original condition.

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

Descriptive sources and standards used to create this inventory: DACS, EAD, NCEAD guidelines, and local Style Guide.

This finding aid is NCEAD compliant.