John Tytell Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SCA-0123

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Manuscripts and notes (mostly hand written, some typed) for Tytell's books Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano (1987) and Passionate Lives: D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Miller, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath...in Love (1991), as well as copies of the published books. There is also a manusript of a speech on Walt Whitman given at Queens College on April 8, 1997, and copy of his book Naked angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs (1976).

Dates

1976 - 1997

Creator

Tytell, John (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Appointments to examine materials must be made in advance. Please email QC.archives@qc.cuny.edu for more information or to schedule an appointment.

Conditions Governing Use

Reproductions may be provided to users to support research and scholarship. However, collection use is subject to all copyright laws. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Biographical Note

John Tytell (born 1939) is a professor emeritus of modern American literature at Queens College, City University of New York, where he was first hired in 1977. He is considered a leading scholar on the Beat Generation and he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his 1987 biography Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (2 flat boxes; 2 half sized document cases)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Manuscripts and notes were donated by John Tytell in April, 1992. Books were transferred from the circulating collection and placed with his papers in 2025.