Influences
You need only to leaf through the exhibit catalog, A Temple of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars, or look at the titles of his many essays to discern whom some of Gass's deepest literary influences are: Rilke, Proust, James, Stein, Borges, Kafka, Walser, Joyce, O'Brien, Porter... But for someone so steeped for so long in the best literature of the world (not to mention the philosophy and other types of books at his disposal), that list is only the beginning. The influences of William H. Gass are (and have been) topics for books and PhD dissertations to explore. And as Gass himself joins the luminaries of his library as an influence on the writers that are following him, his own literary pillar will surely be standing for as long as innovative prose is being written.
Drafts and notes for “The Religion of Consciousness” - an essay on Katerine Anne Porter written while Gass was at Purdue
Typed manuscript of “Proust at 100”
Proof for "The Anatomy of the Mind," an essay on Sigmund Freud
Audio of the first hour of the "Four Theories of Love" Lecture, in which Gass discusses Plato, Stendhal, Rilke and Freud
Selected pages from A Temple of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars exhibit catalog, 1991
Dust jacket for "Masquerade” and Other Stories Robert Walser. Translated by Susan Bernofsky and foreward by William H. Gass
"A Sheaf of Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke" - Translations by William H. Gass
Reading Rilke: Reflections on the Problems of Translation - First Edition Dust Jacket
Program for the Proust Colloquium, Washington University Department of Romance Languages
"The Master’s Voice: Henry James’s Curriculum Vitae"
Reading version of "Invisible Cities," lecture given to Washington University's School of Architecture, March 26, 1984
Program for the events surrounding the T.S. Eliot Centennial Celebration, September 1988