Finding Aid for the Eleanor Ross Taylor Papers, 1970-1972 and undated
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Eleanor Ross Taylor is a 1940 alumna of Woman’s College (now UNCG) and an award-winning poet. The Eleanor Ross Taylor Papers date from the 1970s and include correspondence and draft and manuscript copies of poems.
MSS 132
3 folders in 1 archival enclosure.
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[Identification of item], Eleanor Ross Taylor Papers (MSS 132), University Archives and Manuscripts, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Eleanor Ross Taylor was born in North Carolina in 1920. She graduated from Woman’s College (now UNCG) in 1940, and married writer Peter Taylor in 1943. Her first book of poetry, Wilderness of Ladies (New York, McDowell) was published in 1960 and includes an introduction by Randall Jarrell. Her second volume of poems, Welcome Eumenides, appeared in 1972, published by Braziller, and New and Selected Poems followed in 1983 (Winston-Salem, NC, Stuart Wright).
Taylor was awarded the 1998 Shelley Memorial Prize by the Poetry Society of America. Her more recent work includes Days Going, Days Coming Back (Salt Lake City, Univ. of Utah Press, 1991) and Late Leisure (Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ. Press, 1999). Taylor lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
The Eleanor Ross Taylor Papers date from the 1970s and include draft and manuscript copies of poems and correspondence with editors and publishers as well as with Richard Howard, who wrote the “Note” for Welcome Eumenides.
Folder 1, Welcome Eumenides poems, manuscript and typescript.
Folder 2, Miscellaneous fragments and drafts of poems.
Folder 3, Correspondence.
See also the Peter Hillsman Taylor Papers.
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Listen to an audio interview with Eleanor Ross Taylor courtesy of the Blackbird Online Journal at Virginia Commonwealth University.