<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Oscar Williams correspondence and proofs, 1940-1941</dc:title><dc:creator>Williams, Oscar, 1900-1964</dc:creator><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Correspondence (box 1) and proofs (box 2) received by Williams in preparation for his New Poems, 1940: An Anthology of British and American Verse (New York: Yardstick Press, 1941). Contributors include: Conrad Aiken, John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Richard Eberhart, Alfred Hayes, Weldon Kees, Willard Maas, Archibald MacLeish, Marianne Moore, Frederic Prokosch, John Crowe Ransom, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Stephen Spender, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, William Carlos Williams, and others. Many files contain corrected proofs of poems and, in addition, some include drafts and biographical sketches. There is also a black-and-white photograph of Frederic Prokosch</dc:description><dc:description>Oscar Williams (1900-1964), American poet and editor.</dc:description><dc:description>In English.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>