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Preferred Citation

Papers Pertaining to The Enchanted Years, Accession #38-429, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

This collection was a gift of John Calvin Metcalf and James Southall Wilson, ante 1938.

Scope and Content

This collection of 160 items, letters and poems, 1919-1921, concerns the publication of The Enchanted Years, a book of contemporary verse dedicated by poets of Great Britain and America to the University of Virginia on the occasion of its one-hundredth anniversary. John Calvin Metcalf and James Southall Wilson of the University were the editors of the volume (New York, 1921). Included are letters between the poets and the editors, and poems that were published in The Enchanted Years.

Poets and correspondents include: Zoe Akins, Richard Aldington, Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon, James Cook Bardin, Katharine Lee Bates, Hilaire Belloc, Frances Neil Rose Benét, Stephen Vincent Benét, William Rose Benét, John Randolph Bolling, Kate Langley Bosher, Gordon Bottomley, Gamaliel Bradford, William Stanley Braithwaite, Anna Hempstead Branch, Amelia Josephine Burr, Maxwell Struthers Burt, Richard Burton, James Branch Cabell, John Vance Cheney, George Herbert Clarke, Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, Helen Gray Cone, Grace Walcott Hazard Conkling, Eleanor Rogers Cox, Olive Tilford Dargan, Mary Caroline Davies, W.H. (William Henry) Davies, Fannie Stearns Davis, Walter De la Mare, Lee Wilson Dodd, John Drinkwater, Louise Driscoll, Baron Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany, Harry Stillwell Edwards, John Erskine, Florence Wilkinson Evans, Arthur Davison Ficke, John H. (John Hurtson) Finley, John Gould Fletcher, Jeanne Robert Oliver Foster, John Freeman, Theodosia Pickering Garrison, Adolphine Fletcher Gerry, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau) Gildersleeve, Armistead C. (Armistead Churchill) Gordon, Robert Graves, William Griffith, Hermann Hagedorn, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Ralph Hodgson, Robert Underwood Johnson, Alfred Kreymborg, D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Agnes Lee, William Ellery Leonard, W.M. (Winifred M.) Letts, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Helen Hoyt Lyman, Virginia Taylor McCormick, Percy MacKaye, Edwin Markham, John Masefield, Theodore Maynard, John Calvin Metcalf, Scudder Middleton, Houstin Mifflin, Lloyd Mifflin, Harold Monro, Margaret Prescott Montague, Anne Moran, Angela Morgan, John Gneisenau Neihardt, Grace Fallow Norton, Norreys Jephson O'Conor, Thomas Nelson Page, Lizette Woodworth Reese, Cale Young Rice, Amélie Rives, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Edwin Arlington Robinson, George William Russell, Mary Sands, Robert Haven Schauffler, Clinton Scollard, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Benjamin Franklin Sledd, May Riley Smith, Sir John Collings Squire, George Sterling, Charles Wharton Stork, Arthur Symons, Sara Teasdale, Edith Matilda Thomas, Pierre Troubetzkoy, Jean Starr Untermeyer, Louis Untermeyer, Henry Van Dyke, Tertius Van Dyke, Willoughby Weaving, John Hall Wheelock, Marguerite Ogden Bigelow Wilkinson, James Southall Wilson, Clement Wood, George Edward Woodberry, and Francis Brett Young.

Arrangement

The folders are arranged alphabetically by poet's surname.