Japanese Poems, 1984-1988

File — Box: 30, Folder: 3-16

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection: The Edward G. Lueders papers (1923-2010) contains materials resulting from his work as a poet, teacher, author, and editor. While teaching literature and creative writing, Lueders developed research and teaching files on authors and subjects. These files, found in the collection, contain chronologies of authors' works, study questions and exams pertaining to specific texts, and articles written by or about an author. Lueders's own writings comprise much of the collection. Several of his articles and poems have been included, as well as drafts of many of his longer works of fiction and non-fiction with related correspondence. Similar materials have been included for the poetry anthologies which Lueders edited.

The major non-fiction works in the collection, including drafts and related correspondence. Not only did Lueders write his own works, he also edited and compiled several anthologies of poetry. The most noted of these are the first (boxes 16 and 25) and second (boxes 38-39) editions of(1966 and 1995), of an anthology designed particularly for secondary school students. Much of the selection process for the second edition can be traced from the materials in boxes 38 and 39. The 1995 materials contain, early drafts are referred to as The Poets of Contemporary Japan), Lueders and Naoshi Koriyama, his co-editor, both edited and translated this anthology of contemporary Japanese poetry. The collection consists of correspondence, manuscript drafts, reviews, article, poetry, journals, research and teaching files, essays, and biographies.

Dates

1984-1988

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