Hungry Generation Archive

Collection

Identifier: MS47

Staff Only
No requestable containers

Scope and Contents

The term "Hungry Generation" refers to Indian poets of the 1960s and early 1970s. This collection consists mainly of correspondence between Indian poet and translator Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Howard McCord, an American poet who edited the anthology Young Poets of India. Mehrotra helped McCord locate Indian poets for this and another anthology. The letters contain discussions of poetry in India and the United States and some include poems as well.

The collection also includes typescripts of poems by Mehrotra and Malay Roy Choudhury, several Indian periodicals which published poetry, and letters and poems by various Indian poets who submitted material for publication in McCord's anthology. This material was purchased from a California bookseller.

Dates

1960-1979

Conditions Governing Access

There are no restrictions on use of the materials in the department for research; all patrons must comply with federal copyright regulations.

Extent

1 Boxes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Arrangement

The Hungry Generation Archive is organized into: correspondence (in chronological order); original typescript poems by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra; reviews/announcements; periodicals (in alphabetical order by title); Malay Roy Choudhury; original material from Indian poets submitted to Howard McCord for inclusion in anthology (in alphabetical order by surname); miscellaneous.

Related Materials

See the Carl Weissner Archive for additional material. Special Collections also has Malay Roy Choudhury's translation The Hungryalist Manifesto on Poetry (Calcutta, H. Ohara, 19--; lnd/H936).