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Category Archives: Poetry
Book Lover’s Day: Eighteenth-Century Women Writers
For Book Lover’s Day (August 9), the AHC’s Toppan Rare Books Library offers you a historical vignette of prominent women authors and poets of the eighteenth century. While women did not particularly write more novels over the course of the … Continue reading
Posted in 18th century, Authors and literature, Book history, Poetry, Uncategorized, women's history
Tagged Ann Radcliffe, Ann Yearsley, Anne Finch, Aphra Behn, Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney, Hannah More, Jane Austen, Jane Spencer, Lydia Stuver, Mary Chandler, Paula Backscheider, Toppan Rare Books Library
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Poet Drama in the Selden Rodman Papers
Selden Rodman (1909-2002) was a prolific author, biographer, poet, editor as well as an art collector and cultural critic. He published a book nearly every year of his adult life. He was a rebellious young man who, while attending Yale … Continue reading
Posted in Authors and literature, Journalism, Poetry, Political history, Politics, Uncategorized, writers and poets
Tagged Alfred Bingham, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Common Sense magazine, e e cummings, Edward Hopper, Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, H.G. Wells, Jackson Pollock, James Joyce, New York City, The Harkness Hoot, Thomas Man, Yale University
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A Wyoming Frost
Verna Elizabeth Grubbs, better known to her poetic peers as Ann Winslow, was a driving force in the shaping of young poets during the early-to-mid 1900s. The Ann Winslow collection evidences her immersion in the world of the golden age … Continue reading