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Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered general works on poetry and works limited to the philosophy of poetry. Works discussing collectively the technique and philosophy of poetry and works limited to the technique of poetry are entered under Poetics.
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

David Garrick collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 282
Abstract:

Contains letters from Garrick to: James Stonhouse (regarding his first meeting with Hannah More), Edward Thompson, and Benjamin Victor; manuscripts of poems and epitaphs by Garrick; and a few manuscripts of poems by other people.

Dates: 1733-1778
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > David Garrick collection

Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection

 Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 237
Abstract:

The Liebert Autograph Collection contains chiefly British (as well as other European and American) historical and literary manuscripts and autographs, including items by James Boswell, Jr., Sir Joseph Banks, Marie Corelli, Eugene V. Debs, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Johnson, Ouida, and Alfred Tennyson. The Liebert Correspondence consists of letters written to Liebert by Ian Fleming, Beverly Nichols, John Cowper Powys, and Thornton Wilder.

Dates: 1604-1987
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection

Horace Walpole collection

 Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 1
Abstract:

The collection includes approximately 3,000 letters to and from Horace Walpole as well as other manuscript materials by him, including copies of Aedes Walpolianae and The Mysterious Mother, his commonplace books, his "Books of Materials," and various miscellanies.

Dates: 1725-1797
Found in: Lewis Walpole Library > Horace Walpole collection