mss0099_0901.xml Finding aid for Scenes for a Dying : poemWinter 1993-1994 University of Delaware Library, Special Collections University of Delaware Library
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Date encoded (2011 July 26) Finding aid encoded 2011 July 26 English Scenes for a Dying : poemWinter 1993-1994 Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library
Newark, Delaware 19717-5267 Phone: 302-831-2229 Fax: 302-831-6003 URL: http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/
 Ramsey, Paul, 1924- Scenes for a Dying : poemWinter 1993-1994 MSS 099, F901 1 item (3 p.) This is an offprint of American author Paul Ramsey's poem, "Scenes for a Dying," which was awarded the Rose Lefcowitz Prize by Poet Lore in 1993/1994. Materials entirely in English. University of Delaware Library - Special Collections Source

Originally laid in a copy of Ramsey's No Running on the Boardwalk (Spec PS3568 .A47 N6).

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MSS 099, F901, Paul Ramsey, Scenes for a Dying : poem, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.

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 Biographical Note

American poet and educator Paul Ramsey wrote poems, short stories, essays, book reviews and several novels.

Born November 26, 1924, in Atlanta, Georgia, Paul Ramsey taught English at a number of universities, including the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Elmira College, University of the Pacific, Raymond College, University of the South, and University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

In the late 1960s, Ramsey was a poet-in-residence at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and director of Tennessee Poetry Circuit. In addition, Paul Ramsey wrote an annual chronicle of poetry for the Sewanee Reviewand edited Factotumfrom 1948 to 1949.

His first book of poetry was In an Ordinary Place, published by the North Carolina State University Press in 1965.

Paul Ramsey died September 27, 1994, in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

"Paul Ramsey." Contemporary Authors Online. (reproduced in Gale Biography In Context). http://ic.galegroup.com (accessed July 2011).

Scope and Content Note

This is an offprint of Paul Ramsey's poem, "Scenes for a Dying," which was awarded the Rose Lefcowitz Prize by Poet Lore in 1993/1994.

The offprint was reprinted from pages 51-54 of Poet Lore, volume 88, number 4 (Winter 1993-1994). This copy was originally laid in a copy of Paul Ramsey's collection of poetry, No Running on the Boardwalk (University of Georgia Press, 1975).

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This item forms part of MSS 099 Miscellaneous Literary and Historical Manuscripts.

 Detailed Contents List 62 F901 Scenes for a Dying : poemWinter 1993-1994 1 item (3 p.)