Inventory of the Robert Morgan Papers, 1967-1979
Collection Number 4539
Manuscripts Department, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
- Processed by
- Roslyn Holdzkom
- Date Processed
- December 1989
- Encoded by
- Jackie Dean
- Date Encoded
- 1998
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- Southern Historical Collection
- Creator
- Morgan, Robert, 1944- .
- Title
- Robert Morgan Papers, 1967-1979
- Call Number
- 4539
- Extent
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- 40 items (0.5 linear feet)
- Abstract
- Robert Morgan, poet, received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, and began teaching creative writing at Cornell University in 1971. The collection contains letters and writings of Robert Morgan. Letters are chiefly from from Morgan to Russell Banks of the literary magazine Lillabulero and the small press of the same name. Writings are typescripts, corrected galleys, and/or published versions of poems, some of which were published in six of Morgan's books of poetry: Zirconia Poems (1969); The Voice in the Crosshairs (1971); Red Owl (1972); Land Dying (1976); Trunk and Thicket (1978); and Groundwork (1979).
Administrative Information
- Provenance
- Purchased from H. E. Turlington Books of Pittsboro, N.C., in Augsut 1989 and July 1995 (Acc. 95098).
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Robert Morgan Papers #4539, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- American poetry--20th century.
- Banks, Russell, 1940- .
- Lillabulero.
- Literature--Periodicals.
- Little presses--United States--History--20th century.
- Morgan, Robert, 1944- .
- Morgan, Robert, 1944- . Groundwork.
- Morgan, Robert, 1944- . Land dying.
- Morgan, Robert, 1944- . Red owl.
- Morgan, Robert, 1944- . The voice in the crosshairs.
- Morgan, Robert, 1944- . Zirconia poems.
- Poets, American--North Carollina--20th century.
Biographical Note
North Carolina poet Robert Morgan was born in Hendersonville, N.C., in 1944 and grew up on the family farm in Zirconia. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (A.B., 1965), where he studied with Jessie Rehder, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (M.F.A., 1968), where he worked with Fred Chappell. He also studied with Guy Owen at North Carolina State University.
Morgan taught English at Salem College, Winston-Salem, N.C., in 1968-1969, and then, supported by a National Endowment for the Arts grant, moved back to Hendersonville to write full-time. In 1971, he began teaching creative writing at Cornell University.
Morgan is a widely published poet, many of his poems having appeared in major literary magazines. He also has published several collections of poems, some of which are represented in this collection.
Married to Nancy Bullock in 1965, Morgan has two children, and, as of 1989, lived in Freeville, N.Y.
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Most of Robert Morgan's early work, 1967-1971, was published in Lillabulero, a small literary magazine edited by William Matthews and Russell Banks in Chapel Hill, N.C. In 1968, the operation was moved to Northwood Narrows, N.H. Morgan's first book, Zirconia Poems, was published by Lillabulero Press in 1969. This collection includes letters, 1967-1970, from Morgan to Matthews (1967 only) and Banks, and typed transcriptions, corrected galleys, and published versions of Zirconia Poems and other books, 1969-1979, published by Lillabulero and other houses. Letters of 14 July 1969 and 30 July 1970 have typed transcriptions of poems as enclosures.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
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