George Oppen
UC San Diego holds the literary papers of George Oppen (1908-1984), objectivist poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1969. Most of the materials date from the period 1958-1978. Included are manuscripts and typescripts for all the poems contained in Oppen’s nine published books. Also included are drafts and fragments of unpublished poems, typescripts of published and unpublished essays, transcripts of Oppen’s verse, and copies of reviews of Oppen’s work. Of special interest are loose leaf pages of notes, and Oppen’s personal daybooks, all of which help to reveal his thinking about diverse subjects. The largest part of the collection consists of correspondence to Oppen from family members, editors, poets and other writers, and admirers of his work.
The finding aid for his manuscript collection can be found here. For other collections from our Archive for New Poetry, see our Archive for New Poetry manuscripts listing.
Source: libraries.ucsd.edu
