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University of South Carolina

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1992

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Hugh Macdiarmid: The Thorn On Scotland's Rose, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina Apr 1992

Hugh Macdiarmid: The Thorn On Scotland's Rose, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

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The items listed in this catalogue were almost all taken from the G. Ross Roy Collection of the University of South Carolina's Special Libraries Division. As the reader may be aware, collecting the works of MacDiarmid is made particularly difficult because there is no bibliography, or even checklist, of his complete works. Dr. W. R. Aitken has produced a useful list of books by or edited by MacDiarmid, but much of his work is to be found only in the periodicals and books to which he contributed. While particular attention was paid to works entirely by MacDiarmid in the selection …


Walt Whitman - A Centenary Exhibition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina Mar 1992

Walt Whitman - A Centenary Exhibition, University Libraries--University Of South Carolina

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This catalog accompanied the exhibit, Walt Whitman: A Centenary Exhibition. When Walt Whitman published his first edition of Leaves of Grass, he believed he was embarking on a personal literary journey of national significance. Setting out to define the American experience, Whitman consciously hoped to answer Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1843 essay, The Poet, which called for a truly original national poet, one who would sing of the new country in a new voice. Displayed are many Whitman-authored items including multiple editions of Leaves of Grass, including the first, , Memoranda During the War, as well as …