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Joost, Nicholas, Papers

The Nicholas T. Joost Papers are remarkable for the voluminous correspondence received by this respected editor, author, and educator, from many well-known writers and scholars. As editor of several literary journals such as Poetry magazine and Papers on Language and Literature, Joost corresponded with such literary luminaries as John Deedy, Babette Deutsch, George Dillon , Wallace Fowlie, Isabella Gardner, Alyse Gregory, Mary Hemingway, Laura Riding Jackson, Russell Kirk, John Logan, Robert Lowell, Marianne Moore, Henry Rago, Gilbert Seldes, and Karl Shapiro. Of particular importance is correspondence relating to the famous avant-garde literary journal of the 1920s, The Dial, about which Joost wrote several acclaimed books. Also present, newsclippings and copies of articles about The Dial, as well as Joost's notes and manuscripts.

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