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Finding Aid for the Stephen Mooney Collection, 1950-1971


MS-0989

University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN


Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, August 13, 2007.

Summary Information
Title: Stephen Mooney Collection

Date/Date Range :   1950-1971

Extent: 14.0 linear feet

Abstract:
This collection houses poetry manuscripts, correspondence with other poets concerning the Tennessee Poetry Journal, general correspondence, teaching materials, and other files relating to Mooney's life and career.

Call number: MS-0989

Repository: University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN

Access and Use
Aquisition Information:
Ginna McMillan donated this collection to the University of Tennessee Special Collections Library in October of 1979.
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Copyright:
The copyright interests in this collection remain with the creator. For more information, contact the Special Collections Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of Item], Stephen Mooney Collection, MS-0989. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.

Arrangement

Collection consists of nine boxes divided into eight series:

  1. Series I: Printed Material
  2. Series II: School Material (While Student at Alabama)
  3. Series III: Tennessee Poetry Journal and Festival Tapes
  4. Series IV: Tennessee Poetry Journal Correspondence
  5. Series V: Mooney Correspondence
  6. Series VI: Poems
  7. Series VII: Class Material
  8. Series VIII: Correspondence Between Mooney and Mrs. Rose Graubart

Biography / History

Stephen L. Mooney was born on January 9, 1915 and died in 1971. He was educated at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland and at the University of Tennessee. He taught at the University of Alabama, the University of Tennessee (Knoxville), the University of Southern Alabama, and the University of Tennessee (Martin). Mooney was also a founder and editor of the Tennessee Poetry Journal, a regional publication designed to encourage fledgling poets and to recognize established ones.

Professor Mooney authored Shakespeare's Father and Three Poems. His work was also published in the New Yorker, Sewanee Review, New Republic, Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Shenandoah, and Georgia Review.


Collection Scope and Content Note

This collection contains poetry manuscripts, correspondence with other poets concerning the Tennessee Poetry Journal, general correspondence, teaching materials, and other files relating to Mooney's life and career.

Subject Terms

  • Mooney, Stephen L. 1915-1971.
  • Authors, American -- Southern States.
  • Poets, American -- Southern States.
Contents List
   

Series I: Printed Material, 1950-1970
Box   1     Folder   1    
The Time Trap
Box   1     Folder   2    
Class Material - Portfolio & Bibliographies
Box   1     Folder   3    
Modern Tennessee Poetry - Frank Steele
Box   1     Folder   4    
Mooney Reprints

Box   1     Folder   5    
Mooney Reprints

Box   1     Folder   6    
Poetry Southeast, 1950-1970
Box   1     Folder   7    
Material for Poetry Southeast

Box   1     Folder   8    
Material for Poetry Southeast

Box   1     Folder   9    
Sound Repetition in the Poetry of Elinor Wylie
   

Series II: School Material (While Student at Alabama)
Box   2     Folder   1    
Preliminary and Qualify Examinations
Box   2     Folder   2    
A Concept in Human Destiny in Western Literature
Box   2     Folder   3    
Papers Written by Mooney
Box   2     Folder   4    
Mooney Notes on English Literature
Box   2     Folder   5    
Papers by Mooney
Box   2     Folder   6    
Material on Poe

Box   2     Folder   7    
Material on Poe

Box   2     Folder   8    
Material on Poe

Box   2     Folder   9    
Notebook on Poe
Box   2     Folder   10    
Mooney's Dissertation on Poe
   

Series III: Tennessee Poetry Journal and Festival Tapes, 1967-1971
Box   3     Folder   1    
Tennessee Poetry Journal , 1968
Box   3     Folder   2    
Tennessee Poetry Journal , 1967
Box   3     Folder   3    
Tennessee Poetry Journal , 1968
Box   3     Folder   4    
Tennessee Poetry Journal (Draft)
Box   3     Folder   5    
Tennessee Poetry Journal Correspondence, 1967
Box   3     Folder   6    
Tennessee Poetry Journal Correspondence, 1968
Box   3     Folder   7    
Tennessee Poetry Journal Correspondence, 1969
Box   3     Folder   8    
Tennessee Poetry Journal Correspondence, 1970-1971
Box   3     Folder   9    
Tennessee Poetry Journal Correspondence, undated
Box   3     Folder   10    
Tennessee Poetry Journal - Poems by Various Authors
Box   3     Folder   11    
7 Six Festival Tapes
   

Series IV: Tennessee Poetry Journal Correspondence
Box   4     Folder   1    
Material for "America's Living Poets"

Box   4     Folder   2    
Bank, Martin
Box   4     Folder   3    
Banks, Russell
Box   4     Folder   4    
Bates, Scott
Box   4     Folder   5    
Biography of Authors
Box   4     Folder   6    
Beadoin, Kenneth
Box   4     Folder   7    
Berry, Wendell
Box   4     Folder   8    
Birdsong, Jay
Box   4     Folder   9    
Birney, Ardian
Box   4     Folder   10    
Bratton, Dr. Edward
Box   4     Folder   11    
Briney, Andrew
Box   4     Folder   12    
Brooks, Cleanth
Box   4     Folder   13    
Carlson, Burton L.
Box   4     Folder   14    
Canzoeri, Robert
Box   4     Folder   15    
Carey, Chet
Box   4     Folder   16    
Carter, Sherma- UT Press
Box   4     Folder   17    
Coleman, Barks
Box   4     Folder   18    
Miscellaneous PSE Corro.
Box   4     Folder   19    
Cox, Steve
Box   4     Folder   20    
Curtis, Samuel
Box   4     Folder   21    
Davis, Richard Beale
Box   4     Folder   22    
Dykes, Arhie
Box   4     Folder   23    
Gardner, Harvey
Box   4     Folder   24    
Garrett, George
Box   4     Folder   25    
Ginsberg, Allen
Box   4     Folder   26    
Glaze, Andre
Box   4     Folder   27    
Haines, John
Box   4     Folder   28    
Harkness, David
Box   4     Folder   29    
Harper & Row
Box   4     Folder   30    
Harris, Julian
Box   4     Folder   31    
Hickey, Helen
Box   4     Folder   32    
Horton, Bill, acknowledgements to
Box   4     Folder   33    
Horton, Bill, Sun Press
Box   4     Folder   34    
Iglehart, Louis T.
Box   4     Folder   35    
Ignatow, David
Box   4     Folder   36    
Irlsh Times
Box   4     Folder   37    
Isaacs, Neil
Box   4     Folder   38    
Kelly, Dick
Box   4     Folder   39    
Knox, Joe
Box   4     Folder   40    
Kroger, James
Box   4     Folder   41    
Lancaster, Ray
Box   4     Folder   42    
Laycook, Don, Printer
Box   4     Folder   43    
Laycook, Printing
Box   4     Folder   44    
Lievsay, John
Box   4     Folder   45    
Lee, Lawrence
Box   4     Folder   46    
Letters to Newspapers to University Presses
Box   4     Folder   47    
Malin, Stephe
Box   4     Folder   48    
Marfinalia
Box   4     Folder   49    
Mangam, Charles
Box   4     Folder   50    
Mathews, William
Box   4     Folder   51    
McClary, Ben
Box   4     Folder   52    
Mellown, Elgin
Box   4     Folder   53    
McMillan, Sam
Box   4     Folder   54    
Meek, Dr. Paul
Box   4     Folder   55    
Merchant, Jane
Box   4     Folder   56    
Merton, Thomas
Box   4     Folder   57    
Miller, Dewolfe
Box   4     Folder   58    
Montgomery, Marion
Box   4     Folder   59    
Mooney, Stephen
Box   4     Folder   60    
Moore - Cottrell
Box   4     Folder   61    
Moore, Marianne
Box   4     Folder   62    
Leonard Nathan
Box   4     Folder   63    
Newman, Paul Baker
Box   4     Folder   64    
Owen, Guy
Box   4     Folder   65    
Receipts
Box   4     Folder   66    
Reese, Jack E.
Box   4     Folder   67    
Reninger, H.W.
Box   4     Folder   68    
Poets Responses & Permission (Granted)
Box   4     Folder   69    
Permission Requests
Box   4     Folder   70    
Peters, Robert
Box   4     Folder   71    
Ramsey, Paul
Box   4     Folder   72    
Ridland, John
Box   4     Folder   73    
Roberts, Donald
Box   4     Folder   74    
Rubin, Louis D.
Box   4     Folder   75    
Rubin, Larry
Box   4     Folder   76    
Ramer, Earl
Box   4     Folder   77    
Ramer, Sam
Box   4     Folder   78    
Ryndall, Julia
Box   4     Folder   79    
Scarbrough, George
Box   4     Folder   80    
Schwab, Robert
Box   4     Folder   81    
Shapiro, Harvey
Box   4     Folder   82    
Scheele, Roy
Box   4     Folder   83    
Smith, C. B.
Box   4     Folder   84    
Snodgrass, W. D.
Box   4     Folder   85    
Steele, Frank
Box   4     Folder   86    
Stafford, William
Box   4     Folder   87    
Swafford, Alan
Box   4     Folder   88    
Stevenson, Janet
Box   4     Folder   89    
Tansit, Wayne
Box   4     Folder   90    
Tate, James
Box   4     Folder   91    
Taylor, Henry
Box   4     Folder   92    
Thank-you Letters to Poets
Box   4     Folder   93    
Thomas, John
Box   4     Folder   94    
Taylor, William E.
Box   4     Folder   95    
Tolnay, Thomas
Box   4     Folder   96    
Thomas, Ben
Box   4     Folder   97    
Weiss, Theodore
Box   4     Folder   98    
Webster, J. P.
Box   4     Folder   99    
Wesleyan University Press
Box   4     Folder   100    
Williams, Richard
Box   4     Folder   101    
Wilson, Robley Jr.
Box   4     Folder   102    
Witt, Harold
Box   4     Folder   103    
Woods, John
Box   4     Folder   104    
Woodward, Herbert
Box   4     Folder   105    
Wright, Charles
Box   4     Folder   106    
Wright, Charles David
Box   4     Folder   107    
Wright, Scott
Box   4     Folder   108    
Wright, Ted
   

Series V: Mooney Correspondence, 1960-1971
Box   5     Folder   1    
Letters, 1960-1966
Box   5     Folder   2    
Letters, 1967
Box   5     Folder   3    
Letters, 1967
Box   5     Folder   4    
Letters, 1968
Box   5     Folder   5    
Letters, 1968
Box   5     Folder   6    
Letters, 1968
Box   5     Folder   7    
Letters, 1969
Box   5     Folder   8    
Letters, 1969
Box   5     Folder   9    
Letters, 1969
Box   5     Folder   10    
Letters, 1969
Box   5     Folder   11    
Letters, 1969
Box   5     Folder   12    
Letters, 1969
Box   5     Folder   13    
Letters, 1970
Box   5     Folder   14    
Letters, 1970
Box   6     Folder   1    
Letters, 1970
Box   6     Folder   2    
Letters, 1971
Box   6     Folder   3    
Thank-you letters about "Poetry Southeast 1950-1970"

Box   6     Folder   4    
Letters, undated
Box   6     Folder   5    
Letters, undated
   

Series VI: Poems
Box   6     Folder   6    
Word Pronouncements
Box   6     Folder   7    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   6     Folder   8    
Poem by Mooney
Box   6     Folder   9    
Poem by Mooney
Box   6     Folder   10    
Poem by Mooney
Box   6     Folder   11    
Poem by Mooney
Box   6     Folder   12    
Poem by Mooney
Box   6     Folder   13    
Sonnet: Letter from Ireland & Other Poems
Box   6     Folder   14    
Mooney's House Plans
   

Series VII: Class Material
Box   7     Folder   1    
Anthology
Box   7     Folder   2    
BLY Word Lists
Box   7     Folder   3    
Word Study
Box   7     Folder   4    
English Department Annual Report
Box   7     Folder   5    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   6    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   7    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   8    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   9    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   10    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   11    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   12    
Miscellaneous Material
Box   7     Folder   13    
Index Cards for Class
Box   7     Folder   14    
Index Cards for Class
Box   8     Folder   1    
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Box   8     Folder   2    
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Box   8     Folder   3    
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Box   8     Folder   4    
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Box   8     Folder   5    
Newspaper & Magazine Articles
Box   8     Folder   6    
Published Material Used
Box   8     Folder   7    
Published Material Used
Box   8     Folder   8    
Published Material Used
Box   8     Folder   9    
Published Material Used
Box   8     Folder   10    
Miscellaneous Photographs & Drawings
   

Series VIII: Correspondence Between Mooney and Mrs. Rose Graubart

Scope Note:

This material is restricted during Mrs. Graubart's lifetime.