{"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=Additional+Papers+of+Charles+Wright%0A+1957-2003\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection","last":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog.json?f%5Bcollection%5D%5B%5D=Additional+Papers+of+Charles+Wright%0A+1957-2003\u0026f%5Blevel%5D%5B%5D=Collection\u0026page=1"},"meta":{"pages":{"current_page":1,"next_page":null,"prev_page":null,"total_pages":1,"limit_value":10,"offset_value":0,"total_count":1,"first_page?":true,"last_page?":true}},"data":[{"id":"viu_viu03856","type":"collection","attributes":{"title":"Additional Papers of Charles Wright\n 1957-2003","abstract_or_scope":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu03856#abstract_or_scope","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":"\u003cp\u003eThis addition to the papers of University of Virginia English professor and poet Charles Wright, Charlottesville, Virginia, consist of ca. 2,000 items (9 Hollinger boxes, 4 linear feet), ca. 1951-2003, chiefly correspondence and manuscripts, but also includes an honorary degree from Tusculum College, Greenville, Tennessee; a \u003cem type=\"simple\"\u003eWho's Who\u003c/em\u003e certificate; poster; and a few photographs. \u003c/p\u003e","label":"Abstract Or Scope"}},"breadcrumbs":{"id":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu03856#breadcrumbs","type":"document_value","attributes":{"value":{"id":"viu_viu03856","ead_ssi":"viu_viu03856","_root_":"viu_viu03856","_nest_parent_":"viu_viu03856","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/uva-sc/viu03856.xml","title_ssm":["Additional Papers of Charles Wright\n 1957-2003\n"],"title_tesim":["Additional Papers of Charles Wright\n 1957-2003\n"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["11437-b, -c\n"],"text":["11437-b, -c\n","Additional Papers of Charles Wright\n 1957-2003","This addition to the papers of University of Virginia English professor and poet Charles Wright, Charlottesville, Virginia, consists of ca. 2,000 items (9 Hollinger\nboxes, 4 linear feet).","This collection is organized in two basic series, Series I: Correspondence (Boxes 1-7), and Series II: Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Papers (Boxes 7-9). The correspondence series is arranged in three sub-\ngroups. These consist of letters from Charles Wright to his family in chronological order (Boxes 1-2), an alphabetical arrangement of correspondence from colleagues, other poets, etc. (Boxes 2-6), and professional\ncorrespondence concerning speaking appearances, permissions, poetry readings, and other events arranged chronologically (Boxes 6-7).\n","Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Hardin County, Tennessee on August 25, 1935, to Charles Penzel and Mary Castleman (Winter) Wright, and was educated at Davidson College (B.A., 1957), the University of\nIowa Writer's Workshop (M.F.A., 1963) and the University of Rome (1963-1964). He served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps, 1957-1961, where he studied at the Army Language School, Monterey, California,\nthe first year. He spent the remaining three years of service in and around Verona, Italy, returning there to study on a Fulbright grant in 1963-1964.\n","Since 1966, Wright has been an English professor, first at the University of California, Irvine (1966-1983), and then at the University of Virginia (1983 until the present). He married Holly McIntire in 1969,\nand published his first book of poems,  The Grave of the Right Hand , in 1970. Other titles of poetry include:  Hard Freight  (1973);  Bloodlines  (1975);  China Trace  (1977);  The Southern Cross  (1981);  Country Music: Selected Early\nPoems  (1982);  The Other Side of the River  (1984);  Zone Journals  (1988);  The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-\n1990  (1990);  Chickamauga  (1995);  Black Zodiac  (1997) and  Appalachia  (1998).\n","During his entire career, Wright has won national recognition for his poetry. Several of these awards include the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets for  Bloodlines  (1976), the National Book Award in poetry for  Country Music: Selected Early Poems  (1983), the Ruth Lilly Poetry prize (1993), the Academy of\nAmerican Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for  Chickamauga  (1996), and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for  Black Zodiac  (1998). He has also received\nawards for his work in translation, notably the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale's  The Storm and Other Things . Wright has also published\ntranslations of the Italian poet Dino Campana ( Orphic Songs , 1984).\n","For more complete biographical and professional information consult the Gale Literary Database on Contemporary Authors and the web site for the Pulitzer Prizes on the Internet, Wright's essay in  The Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series , the essay about Wright by George F. Buttrick in  The Dictionary of Literary Biography , the volume  The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright  collected and edited by Tom Andrews, and the biographical folder in Box 36. Also helpful are the two collections of critical essays\nand interviews about Wright published in  Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987 , University of Michigan Press (1988) and  Quarter Notes:\nImprovisations and Interviews , University of Michigan Press (1995).\n","This addition to the papers of University of Virginia English professor and poet Charles Wright, Charlottesville, Virginia, consist of ca. 2,000 items (9 Hollinger boxes, 4 linear feet), ca. 1951-2003, chiefly\ncorrespondence and manuscripts, but also includes an honorary degree from Tusculum College, Greenville, Tennessee; a  Who's Who  certificate; poster; and a few photographs.\n","The correspondence series has three sub-groups, the first is the letters from Charles Wright to his family, chiefly his mother, 1958-1965, arranged chronologically. The second group consists of an alphabetical\narrangement of correspondence to Wright from colleagues, friends, editors, and publishers. 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Other materials include photographs of Charles Wright with other\nindividuals, two bound poetry notebooks belonging to Wright containing his original hand- written poetry, a folder of individual poems by Wright, the typescript for  Uncollected Prose: Six\nGuys and a Supplement The Jordan Lectures 1999-2000  by Charles Wright, a  Who's Who  certificate for Wright, an honorary degree from Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee\nawarded in 1986, and a typescript by Bonnie Costello, \"Charles Wright, Giorgio Morandi and the Metaphysics of the Line.\"\n","English\n"],"unitid_tesim":["11437-b, -c\n"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Additional Papers of Charles Wright\n 1957-2003"],"collection_title_tesim":["Additional Papers of Charles Wright\n 1957-2003"],"collection_ssim":["Additional Papers of Charles Wright\n 1957-2003"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"acqinfo_ssim":["These additions to the papers of Charles Wright were purchased from the poet by the University of Virginia Library in May 2002 and May 2003.\n"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"physdesc_tesim":["This addition to the papers of University of Virginia English professor and poet Charles Wright, Charlottesville, Virginia, consists of ca. 2,000 items (9 Hollinger\nboxes, 4 linear feet)."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection is organized in two basic series, Series I: Correspondence (Boxes 1-7), and Series II: Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Papers (Boxes 7-9). 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He spent the remaining three years of service in and around Verona, Italy, returning there to study on a Fulbright grant in 1963-1964.\n","Since 1966, Wright has been an English professor, first at the University of California, Irvine (1966-1983), and then at the University of Virginia (1983 until the present). He married Holly McIntire in 1969,\nand published his first book of poems,  The Grave of the Right Hand , in 1970. Other titles of poetry include:  Hard Freight  (1973);  Bloodlines  (1975);  China Trace  (1977);  The Southern Cross  (1981);  Country Music: Selected Early\nPoems  (1982);  The Other Side of the River  (1984);  Zone Journals  (1988);  The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-\n1990  (1990);  Chickamauga  (1995);  Black Zodiac  (1997) and  Appalachia  (1998).\n","During his entire career, Wright has won national recognition for his poetry. Several of these awards include the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets for  Bloodlines  (1976), the National Book Award in poetry for  Country Music: Selected Early Poems  (1983), the Ruth Lilly Poetry prize (1993), the Academy of\nAmerican Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for  Chickamauga  (1996), and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for  Black Zodiac  (1998). He has also received\nawards for his work in translation, notably the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale's  The Storm and Other Things . Wright has also published\ntranslations of the Italian poet Dino Campana ( Orphic Songs , 1984).\n","For more complete biographical and professional information consult the Gale Literary Database on Contemporary Authors and the web site for the Pulitzer Prizes on the Internet, Wright's essay in  The Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series , the essay about Wright by George F. Buttrick in  The Dictionary of Literary Biography , the volume  The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright  collected and edited by Tom Andrews, and the biographical folder in Box 36. 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He spent the remaining three years of service in and around Verona, Italy, returning there to study on a Fulbright grant in 1963-1964.\n","Since 1966, Wright has been an English professor, first at the University of California, Irvine (1966-1983), and then at the University of Virginia (1983 until the present). He married Holly McIntire in 1969,\nand published his first book of poems,  The Grave of the Right Hand , in 1970. Other titles of poetry include:  Hard Freight  (1973);  Bloodlines  (1975);  China Trace  (1977);  The Southern Cross  (1981);  Country Music: Selected Early\nPoems  (1982);  The Other Side of the River  (1984);  Zone Journals  (1988);  The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-\n1990  (1990);  Chickamauga  (1995);  Black Zodiac  (1997) and  Appalachia  (1998).\n","During his entire career, Wright has won national recognition for his poetry. 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These consist of letters from Charles Wright to his family in chronological order (Boxes 1-2), an alphabetical arrangement of correspondence from colleagues, other poets, etc. (Boxes 2-6), and professional\ncorrespondence concerning speaking appearances, permissions, poetry readings, and other events arranged chronologically (Boxes 6-7).\n"],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eCharles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Hardin County, Tennessee on August 25, 1935, to Charles Penzel and Mary Castleman (Winter) Wright, and was educated at Davidson College (B.A., 1957), the University of\nIowa Writer's Workshop (M.F.A., 1963) and the University of Rome (1963-1964). He served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps, 1957-1961, where he studied at the Army Language School, Monterey, California,\nthe first year. He spent the remaining three years of service in and around Verona, Italy, returning there to study on a Fulbright grant in 1963-1964.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSince 1966, Wright has been an English professor, first at the University of California, Irvine (1966-1983), and then at the University of Virginia (1983 until the present). He married Holly McIntire in 1969,\nand published his first book of poems, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Grave of the Right Hand\u003c/title\u003e, in 1970. Other titles of poetry include: \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eHard Freight\u003c/title\u003e (1973); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBloodlines\u003c/title\u003e (1975); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChina Trace\u003c/title\u003e (1977); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Southern Cross\u003c/title\u003e (1981); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCountry Music: Selected Early\nPoems\u003c/title\u003e (1982); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Other Side of the River\u003c/title\u003e (1984); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eZone Journals\u003c/title\u003e (1988); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-\n1990\u003c/title\u003e (1990); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChickamauga\u003c/title\u003e (1995); \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c/title\u003e (1997) and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eAppalachia\u003c/title\u003e (1998).\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDuring his entire career, Wright has won national recognition for his poetry. Several of these awards include the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets for \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBloodlines\u003c/title\u003e (1976), the National Book Award in poetry for \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCountry Music: Selected Early Poems\u003c/title\u003e (1983), the Ruth Lilly Poetry prize (1993), the Academy of\nAmerican Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eChickamauga\u003c/title\u003e (1996), and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eBlack Zodiac\u003c/title\u003e (1998). He has also received\nawards for his work in translation, notably the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale's \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Storm and Other Things\u003c/title\u003e. Wright has also published\ntranslations of the Italian poet Dino Campana (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eOrphic Songs\u003c/title\u003e, 1984).\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFor more complete biographical and professional information consult the Gale Literary Database on Contemporary Authors and the web site for the Pulitzer Prizes on the Internet, Wright's essay in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series\u003c/title\u003e, the essay about Wright by George F. Buttrick in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Dictionary of Literary Biography\u003c/title\u003e, the volume \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright\u003c/title\u003e collected and edited by Tom Andrews, and the biographical folder in Box 36. Also helpful are the two collections of critical essays\nand interviews about Wright published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eHalflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987\u003c/title\u003e, University of Michigan Press (1988) and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eQuarter Notes:\nImprovisations and Interviews\u003c/title\u003e, University of Michigan Press (1995).\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information\n"],"bioghist_tesim":["Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Hardin County, Tennessee on August 25, 1935, to Charles Penzel and Mary Castleman (Winter) Wright, and was educated at Davidson College (B.A., 1957), the University of\nIowa Writer's Workshop (M.F.A., 1963) and the University of Rome (1963-1964). He served in the United States Army Intelligence Corps, 1957-1961, where he studied at the Army Language School, Monterey, California,\nthe first year. He spent the remaining three years of service in and around Verona, Italy, returning there to study on a Fulbright grant in 1963-1964.\n","Since 1966, Wright has been an English professor, first at the University of California, Irvine (1966-1983), and then at the University of Virginia (1983 until the present). He married Holly McIntire in 1969,\nand published his first book of poems,  The Grave of the Right Hand , in 1970. Other titles of poetry include:  Hard Freight  (1973);  Bloodlines  (1975);  China Trace  (1977);  The Southern Cross  (1981);  Country Music: Selected Early\nPoems  (1982);  The Other Side of the River  (1984);  Zone Journals  (1988);  The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-\n1990  (1990);  Chickamauga  (1995);  Black Zodiac  (1997) and  Appalachia  (1998).\n","During his entire career, Wright has won national recognition for his poetry. Several of these awards include the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Academy of American Poets for  Bloodlines  (1976), the National Book Award in poetry for  Country Music: Selected Early Poems  (1983), the Ruth Lilly Poetry prize (1993), the Academy of\nAmerican Poets Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for  Chickamauga  (1996), and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for  Black Zodiac  (1998). He has also received\nawards for his work in translation, notably the PEN Translation Prize for his translation of the Italian poet Eugenio Montale's  The Storm and Other Things . Wright has also published\ntranslations of the Italian poet Dino Campana ( Orphic Songs , 1984).\n","For more complete biographical and professional information consult the Gale Literary Database on Contemporary Authors and the web site for the Pulitzer Prizes on the Internet, Wright's essay in  The Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series , the essay about Wright by George F. Buttrick in  The Dictionary of Literary Biography , the volume  The Point Where All Things Meet: Essays on Charles Wright  collected and edited by Tom Andrews, and the biographical folder in Box 36. Also helpful are the two collections of critical essays\nand interviews about Wright published in  Halflife: Improvisations and Interviews, 1977-1987 , University of Michigan Press (1988) and  Quarter Notes:\nImprovisations and Interviews , University of Michigan Press (1995).\n"],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis addition to the papers of University of Virginia English professor and poet Charles Wright, Charlottesville, Virginia, consist of ca. 2,000 items (9 Hollinger boxes, 4 linear feet), ca. 1951-2003, chiefly\ncorrespondence and manuscripts, but also includes an honorary degree from Tusculum College, Greenville, Tennessee; a \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWho's Who\u003c/title\u003e certificate; poster; and a few photographs.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe correspondence series has three sub-groups, the first is the letters from Charles Wright to his family, chiefly his mother, 1958-1965, arranged chronologically. The second group consists of an alphabetical\narrangement of correspondence to Wright from colleagues, friends, editors, and publishers. Some of the more frequent correspondents have been placed in their own separate folder. A third group contains\ncorrespondence concerning invitations to attend conferences, poetry readings, workshops, and other events, invitations to contribute to poetry magazines and anthologies, and requests for recommendations for\nstudents or colleagues, permissions to use his poems, and requests for Wright to judge poetry competitions.\n\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe second series consisting of manuscripts and miscellaneous papers contains the manuscripts for Wright's books, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eCrepuscolo Americano\u003c/title\u003e, a selection of poems by Charles Wright and\ntheir translation, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eNegative Blue\u003c/title\u003e (2000), and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eA Short History of the Shadow\u003c/title\u003e. Other materials include photographs of Charles Wright with other\nindividuals, two bound poetry notebooks belonging to Wright containing his original hand- written poetry, a folder of individual poems by Wright, the typescript for \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eUncollected Prose: Six\nGuys and a Supplement The Jordan Lectures 1999-2000\u003c/title\u003e by Charles Wright, a \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eWho's Who\u003c/title\u003e certificate for Wright, an honorary degree from Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee\nawarded in 1986, and a typescript by Bonnie Costello, \"Charles Wright, Giorgio Morandi and the Metaphysics of the Line.\"\n\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content\n"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This addition to the papers of University of Virginia English professor and poet Charles Wright, Charlottesville, Virginia, consist of ca. 2,000 items (9 Hollinger boxes, 4 linear feet), ca. 1951-2003, chiefly\ncorrespondence and manuscripts, but also includes an honorary degree from Tusculum College, Greenville, Tennessee; a  Who's Who  certificate; poster; and a few photographs.\n","The correspondence series has three sub-groups, the first is the letters from Charles Wright to his family, chiefly his mother, 1958-1965, arranged chronologically. The second group consists of an alphabetical\narrangement of correspondence to Wright from colleagues, friends, editors, and publishers. Some of the more frequent correspondents have been placed in their own separate folder. A third group contains\ncorrespondence concerning invitations to attend conferences, poetry readings, workshops, and other events, invitations to contribute to poetry magazines and anthologies, and requests for recommendations for\nstudents or colleagues, permissions to use his poems, and requests for Wright to judge poetry competitions.\n","The second series consisting of manuscripts and miscellaneous papers contains the manuscripts for Wright's books,  Crepuscolo Americano , a selection of poems by Charles Wright and\ntheir translation,  Negative Blue  (2000), and  A Short History of the Shadow . Other materials include photographs of Charles Wright with other\nindividuals, two bound poetry notebooks belonging to Wright containing his original hand- written poetry, a folder of individual poems by Wright, the typescript for  Uncollected Prose: Six\nGuys and a Supplement The Jordan Lectures 1999-2000  by Charles Wright, a  Who's Who  certificate for Wright, an honorary degree from Tusculum College, Greeneville, Tennessee\nawarded in 1986, and a typescript by Bonnie Costello, \"Charles Wright, Giorgio Morandi and the Metaphysics of the Line.\"\n"],"language_ssim":["English\n"],"total_component_count_is":97,"online_item_count_is":0,"component_level_isim":[0],"sort_isi":0,"timestamp":"2026-05-01T02:36:33.499Z"}]}},"label":"Breadcrumbs"}}},"links":{"self":"https://search.arvasarchive.org/catalog/viu_viu03856"}}],"included":[{"type":"facet","id":"repository_ssim","attributes":{"label":"Repository","items":[{"attributes":{"label":"University of Virginia, Special Collections 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