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WARREN, JAMES EDWARD, 1908-1997.
James Edward Warren papers, 1932-1968

Emory University

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Atlanta, GA 30322

404-727-6887

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Descriptive Summary

Creator: Warren, James Edward, 1908-1997.
Title: James Edward Warren papers, 1932-1968
Call Number:Manuscript Collection No. 429
Extent: .5 linear ft. (1 box)
Abstract:Notebooks containing drafts of the works of Georgia poet and author James Edward Warren, Jr.
Language:Materials entirely in English.

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Unrestricted access.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

All requests subject to limitations noted in departmental policies on reproduction.

Source

Gift of James Edward Warren, 1964, with subsequent additions.

Citation

[after identification of item(s)], James Edward Warren papers, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University.

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Acquired as part of the Rose Library's holdings in Southern literature.

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Unprocessed collection.

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Biographical Note

James Edward Warren, Jr., poet, author, and educator, was born December 11, 1908, in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Emory University (A.B. 1930, M.A.T. 1941), and taught in several of the Atlanta Public School System high schools (1933-1959) as well as the Lovett School (1959-1974), where he became Head of the English Department. He also taught part-time at Georgia Institute of Technology and worked as an editor. Warren is the author of numerous poems and articles, more than a dozen volumes of poetry, four textbooks, many translations of Latin and Greek classics; and has sponsored literary magazines in the schools in which he taught. He died on April 21, 1997 in Woodstock, Georgia.

James Edward Warren, Jr., poet, author, and educator, was born December 11, 1908, in Atlanta, Georgia. He attended Emory University (A.B. 1930, M.A.T. 1941), and taught in several of the Atlanta Public School System high schools (1933-1959) as well as the Lovett School (1959-1974), where he became Head of the English Department. He also taught part-time at Georgia Institute of Technology and worked as an editor. Warren is the author of numerous poems and articles, more than a dozen volumes of poetry, four textbooks, many translations of Latin and Greek classics; and has sponsored literary magazines in the schools in which he taught. He died on April 21, 1997 in Woodstock, Georgia.

Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of the papers of James Warren from 1932-1968. The papers include ten notebooks containing rough drafts of poems and clippings of Warren's articles from 1932-1968. Two published volumes of Warren's poetry, The Winding of Clocks and Listen, My Land, were received with this collection and have been cataloged separately in this department.

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1 - Poetry clippings, notebooks of poetry drafts
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