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 Descriptive Summary Ms. 63 Wasserman (Earl Reeves) 1913-1973Papers (1938-1973) Wasserman, Earl R. (Earl Reeves), 1913- Johns Hopkins University. Special Collections 17 document boxes (7.1 linear ft.) English Administrative Information Provenance

The collection was a gift to the University from Mrs. Earl Reeves Wasserman in 1974.

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 Biographical Note

Earl Reeves Wasserman, authority on 18th century and romantic poetry, was born in Washington D.C. on November 11, 1913, the son of Samuel and Jennie (Apperstein) Wasserman. He entered Johns Hopkins University in 1930 and took his Ph.D. there in 1937. He married Eleanor B. Franklin in 1937 and in 1938 went as Associate Professor to the University of Illinois where he remained for 10 years, returning to Johns Hopkins University in 1948. During World War II he served in the United States Navy as a Communications Officer in the Pacific. He held the Coline Donovan Chair in the English Department at Johns Hopkins University, and from 1954 was a member of the Editorial Board of the Johns Hopkins University Press. He was summer visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin in 1962, Columbia in 1959 and 1961, the University of Washington in 1962, the University of Colorado in 1963, and Harvard University in 1966. In 1967 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for work in Shelley's poetry and thought. He served as editor of ELH, a literary journal, and of Modern Language Notes. He was a member of the Modern Language Association, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Tudor and Stuart Club, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Wasserman contributed many articles to a number of scholarly publications and was the author of the following books: Elizabethan Poetry in the Eighteenth Century (1947); Edition of Thomas Purney's Full Enquiry Into the True Nature of Pastoral (1948); The Finer Tone: Keats' Major Poems (1953); The Subtler Language: Critical Readings of Neoclassic and Romantic Poems (1959); Pope's Epistle to Bathurst: A Critical Reading with an Edition of Manuscripts (1960); Shelly's Prometheus Unbound: A Critical Reading (1965).

Professor Wasserman died suddenly on March 3, 1973, and was survived by his wife.

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 Box Contents 1 Abrams, M.H. (correspondence) 1 Achtert, Walter S. (correspondence) 1 Adonais (notes) 1 Ainsworth, William Henry (notes) 1 Allen, Don Cameron (notes) 1 American Council of Learned Societies (correspondence) 1 Anderson, Charles R. (correspondence) 1 Anti-Intellectualism (notes) 1 Austen, Jane (notes) 1 Baker, Carlos (correspondence) 1 Baldwin, Kenneth (correspondence) 1 Barber, C.L. (correspondence) 1 Bate, W.J. (correspondence) 1 Beach, Joseph (correspondence) 1 Bennett, James R. (correspondence) 1 Blake, Whitney (correspondence) 1 Blake, William (notes) 1 Block, Haskell M. (correspondence) 1 Bond, W.H. (correspondence) 1 Booth, Bradford A. (correspondence) 1 Boyce, Benjamin (correspondence) 1 Bronk, Detlev W. (correspondence) 1 Browne, Sir Thomas (notes) 1 Butterfield, Victor L. (correspondence) 1 Camden, Carroll (correspondence) 1 Cardwell, Guy A. (correspondence) 1 Case, Elizabeth (correspondence) 1 Chaucer, Geoffrey (notes) 1 Churchill, Charles (correspondence) 1 Clare, John (notes) 1 Cohen, Ralph (correspondence) 1 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (notes) 1 Concordia Discors (notes) 1 Cope, Jackson (correspondence) 1 Cordasco, Francesco (correspondence) 1 Cosmic Structures (notes) 1 Criticism, 18th Century (notes) 2 Darrell, C.B. (correspondence) 2 Defoe, Daniel (notes) 2 Dissenter Meditation (notes) 2 Dryden, John (notes) 2 Dryden, John - Epistle to Charleton (notes) 2 Eighteenth Century Novel (notes) 3 Elizabethan Drama, Criticism. 3 Elizabethan Literature. 3 Elizabethan Lyric and 18th Century. 3 Elizabethan Poetry. 3 Elizabethan Poetry in the 18th Century. 3 Elizabethan Revival. 3 Elizabethan Scholarship - 18th Century. 3 Elizabethans (Minor) and the Pre-Romanticists. 4 English Romantics: The Grounds of Knowledge (notes) 4 Epipsychedion (notes) 4 Fairfax, Edward (notes) 4 Faulkner, Virginia (correspondence) 4 Feltham, Owen (notes) 4 Fielding, Henry (notes) 4 Fletcher, Giles and Phineas (notes) 4 Folkenfilk, Robert (correspondence) 4 Gaull, Marilyn (correspondence) 4 Gay, John (notes) 4 Gleckner, Robert (correspondence) 4 Goellner, Jack G. (correspondence) 4 Goodman, William B. (correspondence) 4 Gossman, Lionel (correspondence) 4 Gothic and Elizabethan Revivals (notes) 4 [Green, Richard H.?] (correspondence) 4 Grossvogel, David I. (correspondence) 4 Hagstrum, Jean (correspondence) 4 Hanawalt, Leslie L. (correspondence) 4 Havens, Raymond Dexter (correspondence) 4 Heilman, Robert B. (correspondence) 4 Heninger, S.K. Jr. (correspondence) 4 Henning, ? (correspondence) 4 Henry, Harley (correspondence) 4 Hilles, Frederick W. (correspondence) 4 Hindu Antiquities (notes) 4 Hinman, Robert B. (correspondence) 4 Historical Point of View (notes) 4 [Hooker, E.N. ?], (correspondence) 4 Imagination (notes) 5 Johns Hopkins University, Evening Class, Romantics 1971 (notes, schedules). 5 Johns Hopkins University, General (Correspondence, exams, courses). 5 Johns Hopkins University, Graduate Board (minutes of meetings). 5 Johns Hopkins University, Library Committee (correspondence, notes, minutes). 5 Johns Hopkins University, Student Evaluations (notes). 5 Johns Hopkins University, Student Recommendations (correspondence). 5 Johns Hopkins University, Student Records (notes). 5 Johnson, Samuel (notes) 2 folders. 5 Johnson, Samuel - Rasselas (notes and manuscript) 2 folders. 6 Keats, John (manuscript) 6 Keats, John (correspondence and manuscript) 6 Keats, John - "Keats's Fevered and Temperate Poetry" (manuscript) 7 Keogh, J.G. (correspondence) 7 Korshin, Paul J. (correspondence) 7 Kuhn, Albert J. (correspondence) 7 Lamb, Charles (notes) 7 Lilienthal, Philip E. (correspondence) 7 Literary Criticism (notes) 7 Lyricism (notes) 7 Mack, Maynard (correspondence) 7 Mackery, Eileen (correspondence) 7 Maclure, Millar (correspondence) 7 Malamud, Bernard (notes) 7 Malone, Kemp (correspondence) 7 Melancholy (notes) 7 Miller, Hillis (correspondence) 7 Minor Elizabethans and the Pre-Romanticists (notes) 7 Miscellaneous I (Notes, bibliography) 7 Miscellaneous II (notes) 8 Modern Language Association of America (correspondence) 8 Moore, John Robert (correspondence) 8 Mythographers (notes) 8 "Nature Moralized: The Divine Analogy in the 18th Century" (notes and galley proof) 8 Neo-Classicism (notes) 8 "The New Criticism and Intentional Mind" 8 Nicolson, Marjorie (correspondence) 8 Offit, Sidney correspondence) 8 Ogilvy, J.D.A. (correspondence) 8 O’Helin, Brendan (correspondence) 8 Pascal, Naomi B. (correspondence) 8 Pearce, Roy Harvey (correspondence) 8 Peck, Russell A. (correspondence) 8 "Periodicals - 18th Century" (notes) 8 Personification (notes) 8 Philmus, Robert (correspondence) 8 Pope, John Collins (correspondence) 8 Pottle, Frederick A. (correspondence) 8 Primitivism (notes) 8 Prosopopoeia (notes) 8 Reed, Lowell J. (correspondence) 8 Reilly, Robert (correspondence) 8 Reiman, Donald H. (correspondence) 9 Pope, Alexander (notes, drafts) 9 Pope, Alexander - "Epistle to Bathurst" (notes, drafts, correspondence) 9 Pope, Alexander - "Epistle to Bathurst" (notes, drafts) 9 Pope, Alexander, Miscellaneous Notes (notes) 9 Pope, Alexander - "Ode for Music" (draft) 9 Pope, Alexander - "The Rape of the Lock" (draft) 10 Romantic Poets (notes) 10 Romanticism (notes, drafts) 10 Romantics - Graduate (lecture notes) 10 Romantics - Undergraduate (lecture notes) 10 Rouse, Blair (correspondence) 10 Rowell, Henry T. (correspondence) 10 Schirokauer, Arno (correspondence) 10 Scouten, A.H. (correspondence) 10 Sentimentalism (notes) 10 Shakespeare's Sonnets (notes) 10 Simplicity in Prose Style, 17th Century (notes) 10 Smart, Christopher (notes) 10 Solitude (notes) 10 Spencer, Hazelton (correspondence) 10 Stillinger, Jack (correspondence) 10 Stone, Albert E. Jr. (correspondence) 10 "The Subtler Language", Chapt. V: Metaphors For Poetry (draft) 10 Swedenberg, H.T. (correspondence) 10 Swift, Jonathan (notes) 10 Symbolism (notes) 10 Thesis Subjects (notes) 10 Thomson, James (notes) 10 Tudor Drama (notes) 10 The Walpole-Chatterton Controversy (notes) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Adonais (drafts, notes) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Alastor (drafts, notes) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Cenci (drafts, notes) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Defense of Poetry (correspondence, draft) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Earth and Soul (draft) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Hellas (draft) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (draft) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Lecture (draft) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Miscellaneous Notes (notes) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Scepticism (draft) 11 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - To A Skylark (notes) 12 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Chapter I: World vs. Immortality (notes, drafts) 12 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Chapter II: Eternity of Power (drafts) 12 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Chapter III: The Eternity of Being (drafts) 12 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Chapter IV: Intellectual Philosophy (draft) 12 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - (drafts, revisions and readers' reports) 12 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Bodleian Library manuscripts and Wasserman's transcripts. 13 Shelley, Percy Bysshe - Bodleian Library manuscripts (photostats) with annotations by Earl R. Wasserman. 6 bound volumes. 14 Wasserman, Earl R. - biographic data. 14 Wasserman, Earl R. - book reviews. 14 Wasserman, Earl R. - general. 14 Wasserman, Earl R. - general correspondence A-Z. 14 Weeks, Ramona (correspondence) 14 Williams, Kathleen (correspondence) 14 Woodring, Carl (correspondence) 14 Woods, Charles B. (correspondence) 14 Wordsworth, William (draft, notes) 14 Wordsworth, William (bibliography, notes) 15 Books annotated by Earl R. Wasserman The Finer Tone: Keats' Major Poems, by Earl R. Wasserman. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press. 1953. (presented by Wasserman to R.D. Havens). The Best Of Dryden, edited... by Louis I. Bredvold. New York, The Ronald Press Company. 1933. Walt Whitman, by Floyd Stovall. American Book Company. 1934. The Heart of Midlothian, by Sir Walter Scott. Rinehart & Co., Inc. 1948. (letter enclosed from Richard Macksey to James B. Walton, 3 August 1979 donating this volume to Eisenhower library). The Finer Tone: Keats' Major Poems, by Earl R. Wasserman. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press. 1953. (author's copy, with letters enclosed R.H. Fogle to Wasserman, March 1, 1968; and Robert Langbaum to Wasserman, May 18, 1966). The Subtler Language, by Earl R. Wasserman. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins Press. 1959. (with letters enclosed: Aubrey Williams to Wasserman, April 25, 1959; Ernest Tuveson to Wasserman, 22 July 1959; Jackson Cope to Wasserman, 30 September 1959; Brenden OHelin to Wasserman, 6 November 1961; Clarence Harpe to Wasserman, December 1, 1959). Shelley's Major Poetry: The Fabric of a Vision, by Carlos Baker. Princeton University Press. 1948. (Inscribed by author to Raymond Dexter Havens and presented by the latter to Wasserman - annotations by Havens). Elizabethan Poetry in the 18th Century, by Earl R. Wasserman. University of Illinois Press, Urbana, Ill. 1947. (author's copy) 16 Index Cards 3x5

Ca. 2,500 index cards with notes by Earl R. Wasserman.

17 Index Cards 3x5

Ca. 2,500 index cards with notes by Earl R. Wasserman.