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Biographical Note
Arthur E. DuBois was born in Jan. 7, 1904 in Bethel, New York. He
graduated with a B.S. degree from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. in 1924.
In 1927 he received his M.A. degree from Syracuse University and received his
Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. DuBois began his career as an English
instructor at Syracuse in 1924 and left in 1928. From 1928 to 1930 he studied
at the University of Chicago under a technological Fellowship. He was appointed
assistant and associate professor of English in 1934 at Duquesne University. He
was an assistant professor of English at the University of Louisiana in 1944 to
1946. He began teaching at Kent State University in 1946 until his retirement
at the age of 61 in 1963.
DuBois was a member of several organizations including Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma
Tau Delta, Modern Humanities Research Association, N.Y. Genealogical and
Biographical Society, the Holland Sy of N.Y. and the AAUP.
He wrote many articles and poems for professional publications. He was an
authority on 19th century English literature.
Dr. DuBois died on December 25, 1965.
Scope and Content
Dr. DuBois' papers include the articles and poetry that he wrote over the
years. For several years he made his own Christmas cards in which he wrote a
poem. These are included in this collection. The scrapbooks that are in this
collection contain photo clippings of his favorite authors.
The series include:
Series 1: Articles, Notes & Papers [published] - Box 1-2
Series 2: Articles, Notes & Papers [unpublished] - Box 3
Series 3: Publications - Box 4
Series 4: Poems and Christmas Cards - Box 5
Series 5: Research Materials - Box 6
Series 6: Short stories & Sketches - Box 7
Series 7: Miscellaneous - Box 8
Series 8: Scrapbooks - Box 9
Box 1
Folder--Contents
Series 1: Articles, Notes and Papers [published]
"Against Greek and Moonlight in Verse"
Anglo Saxon Language
"The Bab Ballads"
"The Baroque in Literature"
"Beowulf"
"Best-Dressed Professor"
"Biblical Dragons"
"Biographicalities"
"Brain Trusting"
"Chicago"
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [1 of 6]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [2 of 6]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [3 of 6]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [4 of 6]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [5 of 6]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [6 of 6]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" : original textscript
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [1 of 3]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [1 of 3]
"Comedy to a Quiddity" [1 of 3]
"Concerning Parallels"
"Concerning Satire"
"Concering Sensibility"
"Deanless"
"Degree in Grammar"
"18th Century Wit"
English "Jazz Tendencies in Modern Poetry"
"Erasmus' Doctrine of Foolishness"
"The Falling-down Hills"
"The Fate Image"
"Fielding and Doctors" [1 of 2]
"Fielding and Doctors" [2 of 2]
"The Figleaf Instinct"
"Four English-Language Oddities"
"The Frill"
"Froth of an Epic Ferment : A Study of Romanticism"
"The Function of Criticism"
Box 2
Folder--Contents
"Ganging on the Alien in America"
Gilbert, Reviews of Goldberg's Books
Bibliography of the Works of W.S. Gilbert
Gilbert, Fun Poems
"Gilbert and Fun" [MA thesis]
Gilbertania
Gilbertania - Fun Material
Gilbertania - Journals
Hilborn Thesis Material
"Incomplete Oppositions"
"Johnson's Life of Cowley"
"Keeping Up With the Joneses"
"Klaviluxury"
"A Law of Cultural Change"
"The Literary Critics Job"
"Meaning by Modulatin"
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Poems
"Murder Ha Ha"
"19th Century Bric-a-brac Drama" [1 of 2]
"19th Century Bric-a-brac Drama" [2 of 2]
"19th Century Drama" [1 of 3], [n.d.]
"19th Century Drama" [2 of 3], [n.d.]
"19th Century Drama" [3 of 3], [n.d.]
"Not Idle Tears"
"A Note on the Hegel-Bradley Theory of Tragedy"
"Old Coins Tell Stories"
"On Top of the World"
"The Other Thing"
"Our Critics: Right or Wrong"
"Placard"
"-pathic Fallacies"
"Perpetual Motion: Form and Energy"
"Pre-historic Comedy"
"Professions of an English Professor"
"The Rambler, A Genius"
"Readers Indigestion"
"Restoration Drama and the Romantic Novel"
"Reunion in Kirksville, Missouri"
"Reynolds' Idlers, Nos. 76, 79, 82"
"A Satire Against Wit"
"Seeing Through the Back of the Head"
"Some Notes on Eureka"
"Specialized Reading"
"A Speculation about Form in the Novel"
"The Stars Shine"
"This and That: Study of Principles in Literary History"
"Traffic"
"Tragedy: A Theory about It"
"Translation of Beowulf"
"Truth's Corset"
"Used Up", Kikapoo"
"Widsith"
"Wordsworth's "Language of the Sense"
"Wordsworth's "Language of the Sense" [shortened version]
"What's Wrong With Us?"
Box 3
Folders--Contents--Date
Articles, Notes, and Papers [unpublished]
"A.A. Milne"
"The Ancients"
"Ben Jonson's London"
"Bewitched"
"The Biography of an Ode: Beauty is Truth"
"Byron's Intuition"
"The Dicken's, You Say?"
"Edgar Lee Masters"
"The Epic via Longfellow"
"Flying with Poe"
"Gilbert Saxamined"
"The Grotesquerists: Poe and Anderson"
"Index to Fielding"
"Jee Bee Essayed"
"Keeping Whitman's Own Tally"
"The Late Amy Lowell"
"Lindsay Notes"
"Lizette Woodworth Reese, 1856-1935"
"Manderville the Orthodox"
"Nobody Fears Him"
"1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8=100"
Sandburg
"Sexamining Comedy"
Shelley
"Stranger Than Fiction: Epic poetry and John G. Neihardt"
"Transcendentalism: A Definition"
Box 4
Folder--Contents--Date
Series 3: Publications - in date order
"W.S. Gilbert, Practical Classical" : Jan. 1929
"The Cult of Beauty: A Study of John Masefield" : Dec. 1930
"Gogmagog Agog" : Jan.-Mar., 1932
[review of] Bibliography of Sir William Schwenk Gilbert : May 1932
"Humanism and Folly" : Oct-Dec 1932
"In the Desert" : [1932?]
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 1 : Jan. 8, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 2 : Jan. 22, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 3 : Feb. 5, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 4 : Feb. 19, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 5 : Mar. 5, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 6 : Mar. 19, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 7 : Apr. 9, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 8 : Apr. 23, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 9 : May 7, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 10 : May 21, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 11 : Jun. 4, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 12 : Jun. 18, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 13 : Jul. 9, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 14 : Jul. 23, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 15 : Aug. 13, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 16 : Aug. 27, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 17: Sept. 17, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 18 : Sept. 30, 1934
Avenue, vol. 1, no. 19-24 : Apr., 1935
"Out of Depth" : Jan. 1934
"Encore" : Jan.-Feb. 1934
"A Plea" : May 1934
"Scodubbery" : May 1934
"The Unity of Beowulf" : Jun. 1934
"Decadence" : Summer 1934
"Shakespeare and 19th-Century Drama" : Sept. 1934
"Grasshopper Lyrics" : Autumn 1934
"His Wife To His Biographer" : Nov. 1934
"Man" : Nov. 1934
"Scodub's Lament" : Nov. 1934
"Unquipped" : Nov. 1934
"On the Outside Edge" : Nov.-Dec. 1934
"Two Poems" (Boom, Boom, Bom and The Professorial Bell-Ringer) :
Nov.-Dec. 1934
[review of John Galsworthy: le Romancier],] Dec. 1934
"Rugs for the Ceiling" : Dec. 1934
"Ivy Wall" : Winter 1934
"Moth Wings" : Winter 1934
[review of Sheridan Knowles and the Theatre of His Time] : Jan.
1935
"Beowulf, 489-490" : Feb. 1935
[review of ] The Nineteenth Century and After] : Feb. 1935
"From Dejection" : Mar. 1935
"Poe Goes to Limbo" : Mar. 1935
"Mary Hunter Austin, 1868-1934" : April 1935
"Clichete" : May 1935
[Letter to the Editor of ] The Fleur delis: May 1935
"Diddle-Diddle" : Apr. - Jun. 1935
"At a Symphony" : Jun. 1935
[review of] George Gissing and his Cricic, Frank Swinnerton : June
1935
"Grasshopper Lyrics" : Jul. - Aug. 1935
"Biograph" : Aug. 1935
"Andante" : Summer 1935
"Decadence" : Summer 1935
"Himself He Cannot Save" : Summer 1935
"Wednesday" : Summer 1935
"Back to Eden" : Oct.-Dec. 1935
"W.S. Gilbert and Puns" : Autumn 1935
"Hoch" : Dec. 1935
"Pittsburgh" : Winter 1935
"To the Maryland State Penitentiary" : Winter 1935
"Edna St. Vincent Millay" : 1935
"No, No Geranium" : 1935
"At the Gallery" : Mar. 1936
[review of] The Eighteenth Century : Mar. 1936
"Valedictum" : Mar. 1936
"Trilet" : Apr. - May 1936
"Intellectual Larking" : Apr.-June 1936
"The Western Gate" : June 1936
"Out of Histories" : Spring 1936
"For Popular Drama" : Summer 1936
"Grasshopper Lyrics" : Summer 1936
"Lindsay and Especially Masters" : [review of Vachel Lindsay
: A Poet in America] : Jul.-Sept. 1936
"Wordling" : Autumn 1936
"Portrait of a Professor" : Sep. 1936
"Alastor : The Spirit of Solitude" : Oct. 1936
"The White Lie" : Nov.-Dec. 1936
"December" : Dec. 1936
"The Last Pander" : Winter 1936
"Hollo" : Winter 1936-37
"Round and Round" : 1936
"An Ancient Novelty" : Jan. 1937
"Free-Hand" : Jan. 1937
"Grasshopper Lyrics" : Jan. 1937
"If Winter Comes, Can Summer?" : Jan. 1937
"Oh, That We Two Were Maying" : Jan.-Feb. 1937
"Among the Quarterlies" " Jan.-Mar. 1937
[review of] Larger Rhetorical Patterns in Anglo-Saxon Poetry : Feb
1937
"Grasshopper Lyric" : Mar.-May 1937
"Epigram" : Spring 1937
"Grasshopper Lyric" : Spring 1937
"Green Things" : Spring 1937
"Impressions from G.K.C." : Spring 1937
"Joseph Henry" : Spring 1937
"The Valley of Shadows" : Spring 1937
"Shelley, Browning, and Masters" : Oct. 1937
"Dolor" : Autumn 1937
"Tomorrow Warmer" : Dec. 1937
"From the Valley of Stillness" : 1937
"Beyong Babel" : 1937
"Break-Down: From the Beginning" : Jan. 1938
"Essay" : Mar. 1938
"The Cosmic Humorist" : Spring 1938
"Barbarian" : 1938
[review of] Whitman by Edgar Lee Masters : 1938
"Ivy Wall" : Spring 1939
"Words Wanting" : Fall 1939
[review of] John Gould Fletcher's Selected Poems : 1939
"Maestro" : 1939
[review of] Walt Whitman and the Springs of Courage" : 1939
"Before Laughter" : Apr. 1940
"Travelogue" : Spring 1940
"Travelogue" : Spring 1940
"Essex Won't Age" [review of The Unhappy Favourite :
Jul.-Sept., 1940