{"id":6460,"date":"2016-05-02T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T17:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=6460"},"modified":"2016-05-02T19:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T19:18:06","slug":"john-temple-papers-project-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2016\/05\/02\/john-temple-papers-project-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"John Temple Papers Project Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"0a831b0c3d2aeb112f08aeb7a5084fcd\"<\/a>As the spring semester ends and students turn their collective gaze and energies happily elsewhere, those of us that remain on campus pause to catch our collective breath.\u00a0 Today I ponder and feel a heady lightness of gratitude as I reflect on the amazing exhibitions (such as Archives Reveal<\/a>\u00a0and Cuban Bricolage<\/a>), student projects (such as\u00a0Children of the Soil<\/a>), and partnerships (including\u00a0Celebrate People\u2019s History<\/a> and Interference Archives<\/a>) of this past semester. \u00a0Wow! \u00a0Each incorporated and illuminated archival materials from collections here in Archives and Special Collections and in very different ways. It brings to mind that other activity of spring time in Storrs, the engine-like turning and tilling of the soil, the annual aeration and tending of ground that make deep roots and plentiful, fertile, bee-worthy blossoms possible.<\/p>\n

It was a special pleasure on April 21 to attend the launch of the John Temple Papers Project<\/a> and to hear the clever, funny and wise words of Eleanor Reeds, PhD candidate in UConn\u2019s Department of English, teacher, blogger<\/a>, and now publisher and creator of the John Temple Papers digital exhibition and digital humanities project. The celebration featured poetry readings, a demonstration of features of the web site, \u00a0and a presentation by Reeds who emphasized the theoretical foundation and origins of the project. \u00a0After two years of work, close-reading, experimentation, textual analysis and transcription, and decision-making, the John Temple Papers Project \u2013 a work of scholarship and an inventive peeling back and applying of layers of \"31b3c55a8b8d126f2491e0c560aa80c3\"\"b92f03029026e90c67d51c46269ab47c\"<\/a>technological onion skin \u2013 makes available digitally for the first time a selection of the poet\u2019s literary manuscripts, typescripts, letters and production galley proofs.\u00a0 Readers are invited to \u201cExperience the Archive<\/a>\u201d and to explore Temple\u2019s revisions of individual poems via a digital interface.\u00a0 The materiality and arrangement of the manuscripts, and the play and presence of the author’s hand, are emphasized. \u00a0With permission of the poet himself, Reeds presents the manuscripts as high-resolution images<\/a> derived from the original documents in the\u00a0John Temple Papers<\/a> preserved in Archives and Special Collections.<\/p>\n

Reeds explains,<\/p>\n

As a scholar of predominantly nineteenth-century poetry and print culture, I had always been interested in the process of editing poems and the assumptions underlying any approach to the reality that almost every poet significantly revises their work, before and even after publication. By making available all the possible versions of a poem\u2014including those represented within a single document through annotation\u2014I hope to prompt further interest in how we can allow readers to appreciate poems as far from fixed entities that should not be regarded through a narrative timeline that privileges either original inspiration or teleological perfection.<\/p>\n

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With this end in mind, the Omeka platform has been utilized to enable users of this website to browse multiple instantiations of three poems written by John Temple as his 1973 collection,\u00a0The Ridge<\/em>\u00a0<\/em>(originally titled\u00a0The War Changed Me<\/em>), was developed for publication under the editorship of Andrew Crozier. Temple is a British revival poet whose connection with Charles Olson is what likely led to some of his papers coming to the University of Connecticut’s Archives and Special Collections.<\/p>\n

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Writing in 1970, Jim Burns described Temple as \u201ctoo little known or published,\u201d noting how he had \u201cabsorbed American technical innovations and applied them to his own experiences in the North-East of England.\u201d Burns\u2019s essay\u2014now collected in Brits, Beats, and Outsiders<\/em> (Penniless Press, 2012)\u2014is entitled \u201cEnglish-English Poetry.\u201d It surveys a contemporary group of \u201cnon-Establishment\u201d poets with \u201csmall, quiet voices,\u201d poets characterized by their \u201clong-lined dense texture in which they seem to write around the subject rather than about it.\u201d The three poems by Temple I have chosen to feature in this exhibition tend toward a shorter line length. However, in their evocation of complex emotions through the anecdotal details of otherwise quotidien experiences, they can certainly be regarded as exemplifying Burns’s judgment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Congratulations Eleanor Reeds! \u00a0Thank you John Temple, and thank you to staff of the University of Connecticut Libraries’ Scholars Collaborative, and UConn faculty. \u00a0I am delighted that John Temple’s poetry and his archives are available and presented anew, from the page to new fertile ground, to another generation of readers. \u00a0Read on<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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