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By Ed Gerritsen, January 2011
Collection Overview
Title: Roderick H. Jellema Collection, 1945-2007
ID: COLL/513
Primary Creator: Jellema, Roderick H.
Extent: 4.0 Cubic Feet. More info below.
Arrangement: Folder level description
Date Acquired: 00/00/1995
Abstract
Calvin graduate, professor of literature at the University of Maryland, and a poet. The collection includes correspondence, material for books and conferences, lectures and sermons, articles and news clippings, and poems. His poetry incorporates, but is not limited to, West Michigan; Frisian/Dutch and Calvinist roots; Lake Michigan; family losses; Washington, DC area; world of academia; other cultures; and mystery; imaged through Christian themes and motifs. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]
Biographical Note
Roderick H. Jellema (born 11 August 1927, the son of John Frank Jellema and Elizabeth Marian Den Hartigh) grew up in Holland and Ann Arbor, Michigan. He graduated from Calvin College in 1951 and earned a PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 1962. In 1956, he began teaching introductory literature and composition courses in the English Department of the University of Maryland. He spent 35 years at the university as a professor of literature and was the founding director of its creative writing program. An award-winning poet, Jellema's work is in a number of anthologies and periodicals, he has published five volumes of his own work and three volume of poetry translated from Frisian. He became Professor of English Emeritus in 1991.
Jellema was married to Matrona Thelma Moe Van Zee; they had three children: John Frank (1955-1975), David Moe, and Michael.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Heritage Hall, Hekman Library
Alternate Extent Statement:
8 Boxes
Acquisition Source:
Roderick H. Jellema, 1995
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Biographical, 1979-1991],
[
Series 2: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1949-1996],
[
Series 3: Other Correspondence, 1951-1992],
[
Series 4: Material for Books and Conferences, 1968-1974],
[Series 5: Lectures and Sermons, 1963-1975],
[
Series 6: Articles and News Clippings, 1945-1994],
[
Series 7: Interviews, Poems, Commentary, Lecture, and Article, 1953-2007],
[
All]
- Series 5: Lectures and Sermons --- 1963-1975
- Box 7
- Folder 7: Lecture "Teaching Poetry" at the Michigan Association of Jr. Colleges --- 1968
- Folder 8: Lecture at Valparaiso University "Christian Humanism and Modern Poetry" --- 1967
- Folder 9: Lecture to Mortar Board at the University of Maryland "Last Lecture" --- 1963
- Folder 10: Lecture "In Defense of Being Modern" at Calvin Fine Arts Festival --- 1967
- Folder 11: Lecture "Christianity and Contemporary Poetry" at Calvin College --- undated
- Folder 12: Sermon "The Gift to be Simple" at Clay Banks Methodist Church --- 1975
- Folder 13: Meditations and condolences --- undated
Browse by Series:
[
Series 1: Biographical, 1979-1991],
[
Series 2: Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1949-1996],
[
Series 3: Other Correspondence, 1951-1992],
[
Series 4: Material for Books and Conferences, 1968-1974],
[Series 5: Lectures and Sermons, 1963-1975],
[
Series 6: Articles and News Clippings, 1945-1994],
[
Series 7: Interviews, Poems, Commentary, Lecture, and Article, 1953-2007],
[
All]
