Poetry

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One holograph manuscript poem, "A question," by Christopher Pearse Cranch.

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This scrapbook comprises samples of print materials from Bread Loaf Printers, including programs for plays, lectures, and musical performances at the Bread Loaf School of English, greeting cards, and poetry. Filed with the scrapbook is a 1940 issue of the Graphic Arts Education Journal, which includes an article detailing the creation of a printing operation at Bread Loaf at the suggestion of Robert Frost.

Scope and Contents Bound, typescript copy of Burnign Poems by Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn, dated 1934. Title page contains author's signature. Volume contains poems such as "Orison," "The Golf Links Lie So Near," "The Incentive," "The Survival of the Fittest," "Vivisection," "Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, Joe Hill, Richard Ford, Hermann Suhr, And Many, Many, Many More--," "The Auburn Christmas Carol," and...

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Collection includes typescript draft poems for "The Day We Still Stand Here" (1983) and "Falling Awake" (1986), along with other poetry, proofs, editing notes, and correspondance. Most of the poetry in the collection has manuscript notes made by Margolis. Also includes notes on "Falling Awake" by Robert Pack; works by Robert Pack; works by Edgar O'Hara; and works by Andrea Hollander Budy.

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This scrapbook comprises primarily photographs from Taylor's tenure as a graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English (BLSE). The photographs depict landscapes and buildings at the BLSE, as well as instructors and students. Human subjects are typically identified in writing. The scrapbook also includes printed poems, essays, and the texts of various lectures and sermons.

Scope and Contents The collection consists of two series: Helen Abel Buffum letters, and Clara M. Buffum manuscripts. Helen's letters comprise 20 folders and are primarily from her second husband, Harlan C. Brown, between 1935-1937. Collection includes both holograph and typescript letters. The second series contains handwritten schoolwork, poetry, and stories written by Clara May Buffum. While the work in these four folders is undated, Clara May Buffum...

Scope and Contents Collection contains 22 folders, containing six holograph poems, fourteen holograph letters, and one typescript letter. All poems in the collection have been published in The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley (New York, Grosset and Dunlap, 1937). Of the fifteen letters in the collection, only one has been published. The letters are written to longtime friend of Riley, Howard S. Taylor. The letters are personal as well as literary in content and cover the years 1879 to 1915 (the...

Abstract The papers of Julia C.R. Dorr reveal a poet and novelist who was, in her own time, celebrated along with Julia Ward Howe and Harriet Beecher Stowe in the pantheon of 19th century female literary greats. Ralph Waldo Emerson said that her poetry was “written with an elegance which shows much practice & easy command of lyric metres & expressions; but much more than that, with great tenderness & humanity.” She was also (before Robert Frost definitively assumed the role) unofficial...

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This scrapbook comprises photographs and other ephemera from Wendling's tenure as a graduate student at the Bread Loaf School of English. Composed primarily of photographs, the scrapbook also includes printed poems, graduation cards, newspaper clippings, a menu, and a greeting card, handwritten on birch bark. The scrapbook includes several photographs of Robert Frost, taken by Wendling.

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Collection includes 21 holograph poems by Paul Metcalf as well as three reviews of writing by other authors. Metcalf reviews Todd Moore's poetry (1985), The Lyric Return by Lucille Coleman, and The Night Traveler by Mary Oliver. Note that most of the materials in the collection are undated.

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Bound typesript copy of Portrait Poems by Sarah N. Cleghorn, dated 1934. Title page signed by author. Volume includes poems such as "Three Great Ladies of Manchester, Vermont," "John Masefield," "Dorothea," "Of William Mann Fincke," "Emilia," "Saint Clare Hears Saint Francis," and "Margarita Singing Ballads."

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This scrapbook contains a collection of poetry by different authors, cut from various typewritten and handwritten sources and glued onto the page. Identifiable text sources include the New Yorker magazine, and poets include Frances Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Louise Bogan, Ogden Nash, and Dorothy Parker. Also includes clippings of articles on poetry, and a few New Yorker cartoons. The authorship of some of the typewritten and handwritten poetry is unattributed.

Scope and Contents Collection contains holograph and typed materials relating to the composition of "In the Money: White Mule II," including chapter drafts, early notes, and rejected sheets. Also included are some correspondence, medical papers, notes, scraps of poetry, and clippings apparently unrelated to the novel. Also contains typescript drafts of the novel "In the Money: White Mule II" in various stages. Box 2 contains the first typescript (State A) of "In...

Scope and Contents This collection contains 11 boxes (621 folders, 423 letters) ranging in dates from 1943–1969. Manuscripts in this collection include drafts of poems for inclusion in Meredith’s works: Love Letter from an Impossible Land, The Open Sea, The Wreck of the Thresher and Alcools. Moreover, this collection includes notes and drafts of an introduction for Meredith’s compilation of poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822). This collection comprises many of the correspondence between Meredith and his...