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“Mon Triste Voyage”: Sentimentality And Autobiography In Gottschalk's The Dying Poet, Laura Moore Pruett Oct 2012

“Mon Triste Voyage”: Sentimentality And Autobiography In Gottschalk's The Dying Poet, Laura Moore Pruett

Visual & Performing Arts Faculty Publications

The terms "sentimentalism" and "sensibility" play a central role in contemporary scholarly discourse on literature and intellectual theory in the long nineteenth century. Often used interchangeably, these words identify developments in popular culture and philosophy in which emotions and feelings, as opposed to reason and logic, were seen as the routes to moral and social improvement. In visual, literary, and musical artworks of the era, the emphasis on feeling was frequently connected to a male archetype of the sentimental protagonist, a "dying poet," marked by several common elements: great creativity, high levels of sensitivity, physical and emotional fragility, significant moments …


Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 (Sc 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2011

Moates, Lassie (Taylor), 1892-1981 (Sc 143), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and scan (Click on "additional files" below) for Mansucripts Small Collection 143. Sheet music, lyrics and poems written by Lassie (Taylor) Moates, Richardsville, Kentucky. Includes typescripted newspaper clippings about Moates's compositions.


Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Hays, William Shakespeare, 1837-1907 (Mss 28), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid for Manuscripts Collection 28. Correspondence, poems, lyrics for songs, newspaper marine columns, and royalty and copyright contracts related to William Shakespeare Hays, a poet, composer, and newspaper columnist of Louisville, Kentucky. Many clippings of a biographical nature and of his works. Attached (Click on "Additional Files" below) is full text scan of a diary kept by Hayes from 1864 to 1865 and titled "My Leisure Moments to Belle McCullough." This diary is found in Box 3, Folder 4 of the collection.


Grise, George Calvin, 1918-1960 (Sc 1312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Dec 2007

Grise, George Calvin, 1918-1960 (Sc 1312), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

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Finding aid and full text scan (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1312. Thesis entitled "Will S. Hays[:] His Life and Works", written by George Calvin Grise, Bowling Green, Kentucky, for George Peabody College, Nashville, Tennessee.