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.
Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:
James Kirkup papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 773
Overview:
The James Kirkup Papers includes correspondence, writings, photographs, audiovisual material, personal documents and memorabilia that document the life and work of British author James Kirkup.The papers span his writing career, from early school papers to printouts of digital books published in the 2000s, and include documentation of the diverse genres of Kirkup's research and writing. The papers document not only Kirkup's life and work, but also pacifism as a theme in literature,...
Dates:
1890-2007, bulk 1940-2007
Frederick R. Koch collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 601
Overview:
The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures.Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and...
Dates:
1640-1983
John Bouton Lawrence papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 982
Overview:
The John Bouton Lawrence papers consist of unpublished prose and poetry written by Lawrence on such themes as ancient civilizations, religious feelings, and the moral condition of the contemporary world. The papers also include correspondence with various publishers, editors, and famous people to whom Lawrence sent his works.
Dates:
1926-1946
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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John Bouton Lawrence papers
Herman W. Liebert manuscript collection
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 237
Overview:
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
Edward Mycue papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 822
Scope and Contents:
The Edward Mycue Papers, which span from 1950-2011, contain extensive correspondence, writings, artwork, working files, notes, clippings, audiovisual and born digital materials, along with other documentation related to his life and work.
Dates:
1950s-2011
Baruch Nadel papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1393
Overview:
The papers consist of Baruch Nadel's research materials for a proposed book on Abraham Stern, the founder of Lohamei Herut Israel ("Lehi"), an armed underground organization in British Palestine. The papers include more than 150 transcribed interviews conducted by Nadel, interviews by others with members of Lehi, memoirs by Lehi members and Stern aides, and poems and letters by Stern. Also included in the papers are Nadel's research materials concerning the emigration of Jews from Iraq between...
Dates:
1847-1992, bulk 1971-1985
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Baruch Nadel papers
Agnes Boulton collection of Eugene O'Neill
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 122
Overview:
Agnes Boulton Collection of Eugene O'Neill contains material dating from the period of Boulton's and O'Neill's marriage. Contains professional and personal correspondence (mainly incoming); writings; three diaries by Boulton and one by O'Neill; bills; legal materials regarding their houses; and photographs. Correspondents include (among others) Frederick Parsell Hill regarding Spithead (their house in Bermuda); the American Play Company, O'Neill's agent; and Harry Weinberger, O'Neill's lawyer....
Dates:
1910-1959, bulk 1920-1927
Papers related to Mike & Dale's Younger Poets
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 1236
Scope and Contents:
The papers related to Mike & Dale's Younger Poets, which span from 1996-2011, contains correspondence, writings, production papers, proofs, printing blocks, and other papers related to the production and content of "Mike & Dale's Younger Poets" publications.
Dates:
1995-2011
Piatt Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1038
Overview:
Correspondence, literary notes, clippings, photographs, and an album of poems and drawings on Edinburgh compiled (1898-1899) by Cecil Piatt. The correspondence consists mainly of letters to John Bear Piatt from family members on the frontier in Montana, Dakota territory, and Kansas. There are also letters from his son, John James Piatt, who served as the United States Consul in Cork, Ireland, from 1882-1893, and from Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt, noted nineteenth century poet and author.
Dates:
1834-1909
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Piatt Family Papers
Robbins family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1169
Overview:
Correspondence, notes, sermons, poems, diaries, and miscellanea of the Robbins family of Branford and Enfield, Connecticut. Philemon Robbins, 1709-1781, a minister, and Ammi Ruhamah Robbins, 1740-1813, are central family members.
Dates:
1719-1850
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Robbins family papers
Victor Serge papers
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 238
Overview:
The Victor Serge Papers contain correspondence; writings; immigration and identification documents for Serge and his wife, Liouba; death masks of Serge and of Leon Trotsky; and various materials concerning Serge (including correspondence, clippings, and photocopies of writings) that were collected by his son, Vlady Kibalchich. The correspondence includes letters between Serge and his wife, son, and other relatives; a few letters between third parties; letters between Serge and his friends and...
Dates:
1912-1994, bulk 1936-1947
Betsy Beinecke Shirley collection of American children's literature
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 764
Overview:
Collection consists of manuscripts (correspondence and drafts of writings), illustration material (drawings in all media, photographs, book dummies, and printing blocks and plates), and publication proofs by various authors and artists including Louisa May Alcott, Alexander Anderson, Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, Gelett Burgess, Harrison Cady, Palmer Cox, F. O. C. Darley, W. W. Denslow, Jo Mora, Peter Newell, and Symeon Shimin, as well as work produced for the McLoughlin Brothers publishing...
Dates:
1640-2001
Florine and Ettie Stettheimer papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 20
Overview:
The papers contain correspondence, diaries, writings, materials related to the production of Four Saints in Three Acts and the paintings of Florine Stettheimer, and miscellaneous papers.
Dates:
1898-1974 (inclusive), bulk 1906-1953
Horace Walpole collection
Collection
Call Number: LWL MSS 1
Overview:
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
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Horace Walpole collection
Wayland family papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 1067
Overview:
The principal figure is Francis Wayland (1826-1904) whose early career as a lawyer and justice of the peace in Worcester, Massachusetts is reflected in miscellaneous legal and financial papers (1850-1859). Four poems (1897-1898) by Francis Wayland for various Bar Committee meetings are in the papers. Also included are a few letters from David Josiah Brewer and Benjamin D. Silliman, and household bills and receipts. His father, Francis Wayland, is represented by a notebook, kept by George Park...
Dates:
1846-1959
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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Wayland family papers
T. C. Wilson Papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 36
Overview:
The T. C. Wilson Papers consist of correspondence, writings, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American poet-critic Theodore Carl Wilson.
Dates:
(1928-1947)
William Kurtz Wimsatt papers
Collection
Call Number: MS 769
Overview:
The papers are entirely professional including a small amount of correspondence, teaching materials, unpublished speeches and writings, copies of his published works, subject files and notes. Wimsatt's teaching materials, which contain bibliographies, notes on his readings, and outlines for class presentations, make up more than half of the papers. Copies of almost all of Wimsatt's published work together with the related correspondence are also in the papers. His advocacy of the New Criticism...
Dates:
1935-1975
Found in:
Manuscripts and Archives
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William Kurtz Wimsatt papers