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S. P. Rosenbaum papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 14-12-3195

Scope and content

Files relating to the Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson include correspondence, reviews, a typescript and offprint of an article on the Concordance, press reports, and other information. Also three volumes of the Poems of Emily Dickinson, marked up for the Concordance.

Dates

1961-2001.

Creator

Rosenbaum, S. P. (Stanford Patrick), 1929-2012. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Professor of English, University of Toronto. Cornell University Ph.D. 1959.

Biographical / Historical

The Concordance to the Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by S. P. Rosenbaum, and published by Cornell University Press in 1964, was an early use of the computer for the creation of a literary concordance. A Cornell Concordance committee included Professor Stephen M. Parrish, Professor of English at Cornell; James A. Painter, an IBM computer programmer; and Professor Stephen E. Whicher, son of the early biographer of Emily Dickinson, George F. Whicher.