Donald Gallup

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Donald Clifford Gallup (born May 12, 1913 in Sterling, Connecticut ; died September 6, 2000 in Branford, Connecticut ) was an American literary scholar who distinguished himself as the editor and bibliographer of works of American modernism .

Life

Gallup studied at Yale University ( AB 1934, Ph.D. 1939) and then taught at the Department of English at Southern Methodist University (1937-1940, 1941-1942). During World War II he served in the US Army in France; after the liberation of Paris he made friends there with American intellectuals around Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas , who had stayed in France during the German occupation or who returned there after the liberation. After retiring from the army, he returned to his alma mater Yale, where he initially became an assistant professor of bibliography , but until his retirement in 1980 he distinguished himself as curator of the university library. Through his initiative and often encouraged by personal acquaintance, Yale has acquired the estates of some of the most outstanding writers of American modernism over the years, including the papers of Gertrude Stein, TS Eliot , Ezra Pound , Eugene O'Neill , and Thornton Wilder . His primary bibliographies of the works of Pound and Eliot are still considered standard works today. For a bibliographer, he received unprecedented attention from the general public in 1968, when the New York Public Library located and acquired the manuscript of Eliot's The Waste Land, which had been believed to be lost , although loud doubts about its authenticity were voiced - the one as an expert on Gallup ordered clarification and was able to prove the authenticity of the manuscript.

Works (selection)

  • TS Eliot. A Bibliography, Including Contributions to Periodicals and Foreign Translations . Harcourt Brace, New York 1953.
  • Ezra Pound: A Bibliography . First edition: Hart-Davis, London 1963. 2nd, revised and expanded edition: University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville 1983, ISBN 0-8139-0976-7 .
  • The Lost Manuscripts of TS Eliot . In: Bulletin of the New York Public Library 72:10, 1968, pp. 641-652.
  • On Contemporary Bibliography: With Particular Reference to Ezra Pound . University of Texas Humanities Research Center, Austin 1970.
  • TS Eliot and Ezra Pound, Collaborators in Letters . HW Wenning & CA Stonehill, New Haven 1970.
  • The Ezra Pound Archive at Yale . In: Yale University Library Gazette 60, No. 3-4, April 1986, pp. 161-177.
  • Pigeons on the Granite: Memories of a Yale Librarian . Yale University Press, New Haven 1988, ISBN 0-300-07187-6 .
  • What Mad Pursuits! More Memories of a Yale Librarian . Beincke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven 1998, ISBN 0-8457-3132-7 .
  • Eugene O'Neill and His Eleven-Play Cycle: "A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed" . Yale University Press, New Haven 1998, ISBN 0-300-07187-6 .

Secondary literature

  • William Baker: Donald Gallup . In: Dictionary of Literary Biography , Volume 187: American Book Collectors and Bibliographers, Second Series (edited by Joseph Rosenblum). Gale, Detroit 1997, ISBN 0-7876-1842-X , pp. 119-124.
  • Nicolas Barker: Donald Gallup . In: Book Collector 49, 2000, pp. 596-601.
  • Marjorie G. Wynne, Christa Sammons, and Joseph W. Reed: Donald Gallup . In: Yale University Library Gazette 76, 2001/2002, pp. 16-24.
personal data
SURNAME Gallup, Donald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gallup, Donald Clifford; (Full name); Gallup, Donald C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American literary scholar, librarian and bibliographer
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Sterling, Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2000
Place of death Branford, Connecticut