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Don Coles fonds

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  • Fonds
  • 1934-2016

Fonds consists of personal and professional correspondence including correspondence with fellow writers such as John Metcalf, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Robyn Sarah, Adele Wiseman and Ralph Gustafson among others, academic and teaching files that document his career as a student at the University of Toronto and Cambridge and professorial files for courses taught at York University. It also includes editorial files that document his work with fellow poets at The Banff Centre for the Fine Arts and writing files including notes, drafts and manuscripts related to his own publications. Accession 2011-032 includes correspondence from Northrop Frye giving Coles advice about an academic career, book reviews written by Coles for "The Globe and mail" from the 1970s to 2001, seminar notes for the Humanities course, "Works & days," reviews of his writing, and drafts of the book of poetry, "Where we might have been" (2010).

Coles, Don

Academic and teaching files

Series consists of material that documents Coles' academic career at the University of Toronto and Cambridge University, as well as his years spent as a professor in the Department of Humanities at York University in Toronto. It includes copies of essays, as well as manuscript and typescript notes taken by Coles while he was a student. Included are notes taken by Coles while completing course work with Northrop Frye, advice from Frye regarding an academic career in 1964, his rough first draft of his M.A. thesis, and columns and reports for the University of Toronto Daily Press. It also contains course files related to Coles' work as professor. These files consist of course outlines, reading lists, lecture notes, clippings related to course material, correspondence related to his teaching and other material that documents the ongoing development and delivery of the courses Man in Search, Concepts of Love, Early Times : Literature and the Imagination of the Child, Myth and the Arts and Works & Days. Records also include annotated working copies of monographs used in his courses and certificates received pertaining to his academics and teaching.

Writing files

The series consists of notes, drafts and proofs of collected and uncollected poems written by Coles including manuscript drafts of his collections "K in love," "The prinzhorn collection," "Forest of the medieval world," "Kurgan," and "How we all swiftly," among others. It contains research material, notes and drafts of his novel "Doctor Bloom's story," his autobiographical work "A dropped glove in Regent Street," a poetry collection "Where we might have been," correspondence with publishers, interviews with Coles, reviews of his work, publicity material related to his writing, and book reviews written for "The Globe and mail." It also includes the manuscript for Tomas Transtomer's "For the living and the dead," which Coles translated from Swedish as well as correspondence between Coles and Tomas and Monica Transtromer regarding this work.

Correspondence files

The series consists of personal and professional correspondence including manuscript and typescript copies of letters as well as e-mail received by Coles. It also includes many copies of letters or e-mails written by Coles himself. The series includes family correspondence as well as correspondence with writers such as Christopher Wiseman, Liliane Welch, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Al Purdy, P.K. Page, Steven Heighton, Ralph Gustafson, Adele Wiseman, John Metcalf, David O'Meara, Robyn Sarah, Jan Ruzesky, Betty Jane Wylie, Robert Fulford, Carol Shields, Philip Grover and Tomas Transtromer among others.

Letters from various

Correspondents include Ralph Gustafson, Chris Wiseman, Charles Ritchie, Douglas LePan, Dennis Lee, Dale Zieroth, Marshall McLuhan, Michael Boddy, E.J. Pratt, Northrop Frye, John Steffler, Janice Kulyk Keefer, John Whiting, John Unrau and others.

Recommendation letter from E.J. Pratt

Item is a letter of recommendation written on behalf of Coles by E.J. Pratt and sent to the H.B. Mayo, the Secretary of the British Council Scholarships of the University of Alberta.

Business correspondence

File includes correspondence with Florence McNeil, P.K. Page, Robert Fulford, Christopher Wiseman, Marie Jacobs, Joyce Wieland, Sam Solecki and William French.

Rilke, [Rainer Maria]

File includes a postcard from Northrop Frye offering advice on an academic career, 1964.

Correspondence with colleagues

File includes correspondence with Liliane Welch, Margaret Atwood, Douglas Le Pon, Elisabeth Harver, Inge Israel, Rita Donovan, Janice Kulyk-Keefer, David Knight, Dennis Lee with drafts, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Caroline Adderson, Charles, Ritchie, Glen Sorestad, Al Purdy (with signed poems to Coles), Betty Jane Wylie, P.K. Page (Exeter stationery), Steve Heighton, Susan Glickman, Lloyd Nelson, Bruce Hunter, Christopher Wiseman, Moira Cook, Carolyn Smart, Ray Filip, Ralph Gustafson (and Betty), Northrop Frye.

Hawthorne Bilingual School poems

File consists of an explanatory note by Coles and a collection of poems written by children who were children at the Hawthorne Bilingual School in May-June 1971.

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