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Subseries 2.2
Prose, 1964-2012
Boxes 40 - 41 and 87; BV 1
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of Grennan's prose writings from 1964-2010. Some of Grennan's early writings can be found in this subseries, including several short stories that he wrote while in Italy in 1964, numerous academic papers he wrote while a student at Harvard University in the 1960s, and his doctoral dissertation. Also included are reviews of books, introductions for readings by other authors, and various articles, essays, and other prose pieces.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order.
| Articles, essays, and other prose | ||
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 40 | 1 | "Atlanta Angry," typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 2 | "Autobiographical Note," published in World Authors series, undated |
| 40 | 3 | "The Call," convocation address, Vassar College, April 28, 2004 |
| 40 | 4 | "Clarke and Kavanagh: Irish Poetic Identity after Yeats," typescript draft, November 29, 1976 |
| 40 | 5 | "Dual Characterization: A Note on Chaucer's Use of 'But' in the Portrait of the Parson," typescript, published in The Chaucer Review, Winter 1981-1982 |
| 40 | 6 | "Elegy," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 7 | "Equilibrist," typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 8 | Essay for First Loves: Poets Introduce the Essential Poems that Captivated and Inspired Them, typescript drafts, 2000 |
| 40 | 9 | Essay on Irish and American literary elements, published in Metre, Autumn 1997 |
| 40 | 10 | "Family Group," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 11 | "Foreword" to The Road to Deadman Cove by George Anthony, unpublished, circa 1976 |
| 40 | 12 | "Garden," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 13 | "Johnson and Vaughan," typescript draft, published in The Irish Times, November 1983 |
| 40 | 14 | "Light" [Variant title: "Witness the Light"], typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 15 | "Memorial Minute for James Day," by Grennan, Robert Brown, Robert DeMaria, Rachel Kitzinger, Ben Kohl, and Robert Pounder, typescript draft, no date |
| 40 | 16 | "Narcissus Nub," typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 17 | "Orpheus Exposed," typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 18 | "Outing," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 19 | "'Prologues to What Is Possible': Coming to (Some) Terms with Stevens," published in Green Mountain Review, winter 2009 |
| 40 | 20 | "Renvyle Garden," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 21 | "Richard Hugo," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 22 | "Seven Scraps to Start the Year With," typescript draft, January 7, 1997 |
| 40 | 23 | "'A Slight Companionable Ghost:' Trying to Catch Sight of Yeats's Mother," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 24 | "A Sort of Portrait of Renvyle," typescript draft, 1989 |
| 40 | 25 | "Soul Music in Yeats and Kavanagh," typescript and manuscript drafts and notes, undated |
| 40 | 26 | "Squirrel," typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 27 | "Still Life," typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 28 | "Sunset, Trolley, Swans," typescript drafts, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 29 | "Tarot or Not Tarot," typescript draft, circa late 1970s |
| 40 | 30 | "Trimming," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 31 | "Unacquainted with the Night," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 32 | "Unpacking," typescript draft, undated |
| 40 | 33 | Untitled essay, typescript, undated |
| 40 | 34 | "What I Heard There," essay, published in Metre, Spring/Summer 2000 |
| 40 | 35 | "Women's Speech in Shakespeare," bibliographic material, no date |
| 40 | 36 | "Women's Speech in Shakespeare," manuscript drafts [1 of 2], no date |
| 40 | 37 | "Women's Speech in Shakespeare," manuscript drafts [2 of 2], no date |
| 40 | 38 | "Women's Speech in Shakespeare," notes, undated |
| 40 | 39 | "Women's Speech in Shakespeare," partial manuscript and typescript drafts, undated |
| Introductions for readings by others | ||
| 41 | 1 | Asekoff, Louis, undated |
| 41 | 2 | Bidart, Frank, Villanova Literary Festival, Villanova University, 2002 |
| 41 | 3 | Carey, Peter, undated |
| 41 | 4 | Clampitt, Amy, undated |
| 41 | 5 | Collins, Billy, Elizabeth Bishop Annual Poetry Reading, Vassar College, 2004 |
| 41 | 6 | Delanty, Greg, Vassar College, undated |
| 41 | 7 | Dunn, Douglas and Michael Longley, undated |
| 41 | 8 | Duncan, Paul, Derek Mahon, and Paul Muldoon, undated |
| 41 | 9 | Gibson, Margaret, undated |
| 41 | 10 | Groarke, Vona, 5th Annual Irish Poetry Reading in Memory of Michael Durkan, Swarthmore College, April 2002 |
| 41 | 11 | Heaney, Seamus, Elizabeth Bishop Annual Poetry Reading, Vassar College, no date |
| 41 | 12 | Heaney, Seamus, James Joyce Centennial Celebration, Vassar College, 1982 |
| 41 | 13 | Komunyakaa, Yusef, Elizabeth Bishop Annual Poetry Reading, Vassar College, circa 2004 |
| 41 | 14 | Longley, Michael, undated |
| 41 | 15 | Longley, Michael and John McGahern, undated |
| 41 | 16 | MacCarthy, Catherine, Ireland House, New York University, no date |
| 41 | 17 | McGahern, John, undated |
| 41 | 18 | Olds, Sharon, Elizabeth Bishop Annual Poetry Reading, Vassar College, no date |
| 41 | 19 | Palmer, Michael, undated |
| 41 | 20 | Tillinghast, Richard, undated |
| 41 | 21 | Yeats, Michael and John Montague, Yeats and Ireland event commemorating W.B. Yeats, Vassar College, April 27, 1989 |
| Reviews | ||
| 41 | 22 | "American Breath, American Bone," review of Selected Poems by Philip Levine and Selected Poems by Galway Kinnell, no date |
| 41 | 23 | "American Grain," review of Chief Joseph of Nez Perce by Robert Penn Warren, undated |
| 41 | 24 | "Casting a Cold Eye," review of Moral Tales by Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Patrick Creagh, published in The Irish Times, 1984 |
| 41 | 25 | "Golden Oldies," review of Elizabethan Lyrics edited by Norman Ault, undated |
| 41 | 26 | Quotes promoting works by other authors, undated |
| 41 | 27 | Review of Colonial Consequences: Essays in Irish Literature and Culture by John Wilson Foster, undated |
| 87 | 4 | Review of Human Chain by Seamus Heaney, 2012 |
| 41 | 28 | Review of Lake Geneva by Gerald Dawe, published in The Irish Times, undated |
| 41 | 29 | Review of Life Monitor by Ciaran O'Driscoll and The Song the Oriole Sang by Philip McDonagh, 2010 |
| 41 | 30 | "Reviewer Reviewed," review of Troubled Thoughts Majestic Dreams by Dennis O'Driscoll, undated |
| 41 | 31 | "Shelf Life," review of Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001 by Seamus Heaney, undated |
| 41 | 32 | "Still Wayfaring," review of Robert Lowell: Collected Poems edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter, undated |
| 41 | 33 | "War Correspondent?" review of Poetry in the Wars by Edna Longley, undated |
| 41 | 34 | "Whimful Book," review of The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry edited by Paul Muldoon, 1987 |
| Short stories | ||
| 41 | 35 | "Allegro Ma Non Troppo" [Variant title: "Olive"], typescript draft, circa 1964 |
| 41 | 36 | "Plato's Ghost," typescript draft, circa 1964 |
| 41 | 37 | "A Row of Copper-Beeches," typescript draft, circa 1964 |
| 41 | 38 | "Spring Has Four Seasons," typescript drafts, circa 1964 |
| 41 | 39 | "A Sudden Sunny Wind: A Fantasy in One Act," typescript draft, circa 1964 |
| 41 | 40 | "Ten Stories: Anabasis," notes, circa 1964 |
| Student papers | ||
| 41 | 41 | "Ben Johnson and the Coming Muse: A Note on Three Lyrics" |
| 41 | 42 | "The Constant Sacrament: The Figure of the Poet in The Shepheardes Calendar," circa January 1966 |
| 41 | 43 | "The Crumbling Pageant: A View of Dryden's Odes" |
| 41 | 44 | "Figured Worlds: Some Aspects of Landscapes in Dryden and Pope," May 23, 1966 |
| BV1 | - | "History and Historia: A Reading of Shakespeare's History Plays," doctoral dissertation, December 1972 |
| 41 | 45 | "Iron Truths: Tennyson's Aesthetic Dilemma," December 1965 |
| 41 | 46 | "The Ladder of Civility: A Structural Pattern in Book Six of The Faerie Queen," December 1967-January 1968 |
| 41 | 47 | "Myth as Metaphor: Paradise Lost" |
| 41 | 48 | "The Preface to Ralegh's History of the World" |
| 41 | 49 | "Providence, Fortune, Art: The Search for Meaning in King Lear," dissertation chapter draft |
| 41 | 50 | "Rejection and Acceptance in Gulliver's Fourth Voyage," January 6, 1966 |
| 41 | 51 | "Sacramental and Secular: A Changing Mode of Literary Perception," January 18, 1968 |
| 41 | 52 | "Sidney and the Golden World: Some Aspects of Landscape," May 16, 1966 |
| 41 | 53 | "Some Critics of Byron: A Reading Report," cover page, May 9, 1966 |
| 41 | 54 | "Some Notes on Dickens" |
| 41 | 55 | "Some Notes on Two Novels of George Eliot" |
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