Call Number:

C0955

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 5 boxes
• 4.4 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); A. Walton Litz Papers, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1969-1993 (inclusive)

Creator:

Litz, A. Walton.

Form:

Lectures., Reading lists., and Syllabi.

Abstract:

A. Walton Litz was a member of the Princeton Class of 1951, and later became the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton, where he taught from 1956-1993 (?). Consists of Litz's English literature course materials and preliminary chapters for the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7 (2000), edited by Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey.

A. Walton Litz (1929- ), Princeton Class of '51, was the Holmes Professor of English Literature at Princeton University, where he taught from 1956-1993 (?). He earned his Ph.D. from Oxford University while he was there on a Rhodes Scholarship (1951-1954). Litz has written or edited more than twenty volumes, including The Art of James Joyce, Jane Austen: A Study of Her Artistic Development, Introspective Voyager: The Poetic Development of Wallace Stevens, Modern Literary Criticism, 1900-1970, The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, and the Prentice-Hall Anthology of American Literature. He has received grants and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Danforth Foundation (E. Harris Harbison Award for Gifted Teaching), the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the American Philosophical Society.

This collection consists of the English literature course materials of A. Walton Litz. Included are his lecture notes on topics in modern literature, modern American poetry, modern British poetry, and the history of literary criticism, as well as syllabi, reading lists, handouts, and other reference material. There are also four preliminary chapters for the Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 7 (2000), edited by Litz, Louis Menand, and Lawrence Rainey. The files (in 4 record center cartons and 1 archive box, totaling 4.4 linear feet) are arranged in the same order as originally found in Litz's filing cabinets in his Firestone Library office. Professor Thomas Roche of the Princeton University English Department provided additional information on the English undergraduate and graduate classes and seminars taught by Litz during his years at Princeton.