Description In January 2014, Robert Boyer, emeritus professor of English at St. Norbert College,donated his W.H. Auden collection to the Miriam B. and James J. Mulva Library archives at the college. The collection includes Auden's published works, and correspondence between Boyer and the author's fellow student, Herbert Howarth.
Herbert Howarth was Boyer's teacher and dissertation director at the University of Pennsylvania. Howarth attended Oxford University where he was tutored by the same tutor of W. H. Auden, Nevill Coghill. Coghill had been the tutor of Auden ten years before Howarth for his post doctorate work.
This is the collection of their correspondence.
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C.L. Wrenn Letter
C. L. Wrenn
Letter replying to Dr. Robert Boyer on his questions about the poet Auden. Wrenn had been Auden's tutor in his last year as an undergraduate at the Christ Church at Oxford.
Source: Oxford University
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November 6, 1967 Letter
Herbert Howarth
In search of a topic that is comparative (Medieval-Modern). Written while Dr. Boyer is still at Penn.