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Finding Aid To The Collection Of Lilla Cabot Perry Materials., Lilla Cabot Perry, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Lilla Cabot Perry Materials., Lilla Cabot Perry, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aids
The Collection of Lilla Cabot Perry Materials contains clippings, correspondence, two diaries, published and unpublished manuscripts, a memorial exhibit document, two portrait paintings (William Dean Howells, Edwin Arlington Robinson) and photograph items.
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848-1933) was born in Boston, a member of the prominent Cabot family. She married Thomas Sargeant Perry, a literature professor at Harvard, and through him became friends with writers such as Henry James and William Dean Howells. Perry wrote several volumes of poetry: "Heart of the Weed" (1886), "From the Garden of Hellas" (1891), "Impressions" (1898), and "Jar of Dreams" (1923). Primarily known as an …
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections
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Celia Laighton Thaxter, 1835-1894, was an American poet and prose writer. Born Celia Laighton in Portsmouth, N.H., she spent her childhood on White Island Lighthouse, part of Isles of Shoals, and Appledore Island. At 16 she married Levi Thaxter and had three sons, Karl, John, and Roland. The family spent winters on the mainland in Massachusetts, where Celia felt imprisoned by domestic duties in a city house. Her first poem, "Land-locked," was published in 1860 and was an immediate success. Soon she became widely published, with poems appearing in Harper's, Scribner's, and the Atlantic. With the means to spend more …
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Louise Helen Coburn Materials, Louise Helen Coburn, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Louise Helen Coburn Materials, Louise Helen Coburn, Colby College Special Collections
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Louise Helen Coburn was born in Skowhegan, Maine on September 1, 1856, daughter of Stephen Coburn and Helen Sophia Miller. Coburn was Colby's second female graduate (after Mary Low Carver) in 1877, and graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors. She also later received an honorary Litt. D. degree from Colby in 1914. Coburn's family was deeply tied to Colby College. Her father Stephen graduated in 1839, and the Coburn family was critical to Colby's early development as benefactors. Coburn was a co-founder, along with Mary Low Carver and others, of the Sigma Kappa Sorority. Coburn also later attended the Harvard …
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Robert Underwood Johnson Materials, Robert Underwood Johnson, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Robert Underwood Johnson Materials, Robert Underwood Johnson, Colby College Special Collections
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Robert Underwood Johnson, author, conservationist, and diplomat, was born in New York in 1853. For more than forty years he was associated with The Century Magazine. Associate Editor under Richard Watson Gilder, he succeeded to the editorship from 1909-1913. Using the influence of The Century Magazine, Underwood, in conjunction with famed naturalist John Muir, was one of the driving forces behind the creation of Yosemite National Park in the California in 1890. In 1889, Johnson also encouraged Muir to "start an association" to help protect the Sierra Nevada, inspiring the formation of the Sierra Club in 1892. In 1920-1921 he …
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Sir Edmund William Gosse Materials, Sir Edmund William Gosse, Colby College Special Collections
Finding Aid To The Collection Of Sir Edmund William Gosse Materials, Sir Edmund William Gosse, Colby College Special Collections
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Sir Edmund William Gosse (1849–1928) was an English biographer and critic. He was lecturer in English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge (1884–90) and librarian of the House of Lords (1904–14). Although he wrote with enthusiasm and wit, his scholarship was often inaccurate and thus much of his critical work has been superseded. He did, however, introduce English readers to Ibsen and other Scandinavian writers as well as to some modern French writers and painters. Among the many biographies he wrote were those of Gray (1882), Donne (1899), Sir Thomas Browne (1905), Ibsen (1907), Swinburne (1917), and Congreve (rev. ed. 1924). …
African-American Poetry, Music, And Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald
African-American Poetry, Music, And Politics, Tyler H. Macdonald
Honors Theses
The 2016 decision to award songwriter and musician Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize in Literature sparked a worldwide debate on the relationship between music and poetry and raised many questions about music’s place in literary canon. However, this debate is nothing new. Questions about the relationship between music and poetry have long been debated. Some scholars believe the two disciplines should be studied separately, while others prefer to consider the connections between the two.
My project begins with a question: if Bob Dylan’s songs can be considered poetry, what other forms of music might also be considered poetry? Rap implements …
Beer Stein Poem, True Poem, Sick Poem, Erotic Poem, And Other Poems, Margaret Bower
Beer Stein Poem, True Poem, Sick Poem, Erotic Poem, And Other Poems, Margaret Bower
Honors Theses
A collection of poems dealing with subjects like absurdity, strange love, and adulthood.
Moon Jellies, Christina Garbarino
More Than Just Nonsense Verse?: The Language Of Dr. Seuss And Children's Literacy, Nicole Hewes
More Than Just Nonsense Verse?: The Language Of Dr. Seuss And Children's Literacy, Nicole Hewes
Senior Scholar Papers
In this Senior Scholars project I wanted to demonstrate that Dr. Seuss books are much more than just nonsense verse. For the first part of my project, I familiarized myself with all of his texts and scrutinized his use of language in a textual analysis. By scrutinizing Geisel’s use of language and wordplay, I hoped to isolate some characteristics that make a Seuss book different from other types of stories and texts. The second part of my project was an empirical study that tested what influence reading a real Seuss text versus a fake Seuss text has on students’ performance …
Island Voices, Sarah Hirsch
Island Voices, Sarah Hirsch
Honors Theses
A story that’s actually a series of poems, told somewhat by the people themselves but mostly as it is seen by the ocean, which narrates lovingly, scathingly, honestly, feelingly.
A Poet Of The Sikhs: Aesthetic Embodiment In The Poetry Of A Young And Elderly Bhai Vir Singh, Todd Curcuru
A Poet Of The Sikhs: Aesthetic Embodiment In The Poetry Of A Young And Elderly Bhai Vir Singh, Todd Curcuru
Honors Theses
Bhai Vir Singh, famous 19th and 20th century Sikh poet, writer, and scholar is remembered for his great literary achievements and proliferation of the Pubjabi language. Raised in the Punjab, India after the fall of the Sikh kingdom to the British, Vir Singh grew up in a time of religious turmoil due to Western influence. Joining the Singh Sabha reformation movement, he dedicated his life wholeheartedly to return contemporary Sikh identity to its foundational roots as present in the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth.
Despite his desire to return to a fundamental Sikh identity, Bhai Vir Singh …
Ghetto Feminism: Neo-Black Feminism For The Black Hip-Hop Generation(S), Chyann L. Oliver
Ghetto Feminism: Neo-Black Feminism For The Black Hip-Hop Generation(S), Chyann L. Oliver
Senior Scholar Papers
"Ghetto Feminism: Neo-Black Feminism for the Black Hip-Hop Generation (s)" is a feminism that addresses the simultaneity of race, sex, and class oppressions that subjugate black people of the hip-hop generation who reside in the urban ghetto or ghetto like conditions. It is a feminism that deconstructs the hypersexualized, racialized and classist representations of black people in hip-hop culture. The goal of this feminism or feminist thought is to raise the black hip-hop generationer's critical consciousness in order to encourage resistance to distorted images of themselves. Continuing with the tradition of multivocality or heteroglossia, Ghetto Feminism uses poetry, scholarly essays, …
Fata Morgana, Erin Rogers
Fata Morgana, Erin Rogers
Senior Scholar Papers
Fora Morgana began as Traveling Light in April, 2000, a Senior Scholars project exploring the performing arts of dance and poetry. I wanted to combine these two an forms into an interdisciplinary research project and, ultimately, a full-length dance work for a production incorporating set design, sound design, costume design, and lighting. During the months following the project's conception, I began to focus the background research on Arthurian literature and legend.
La Esperanza, Elizabeth Tippet
Siamese Connection, Rosecrans Baldwin
Power Outage, And Other Poems, Wendy Oram-Smith
Power Outage, And Other Poems, Wendy Oram-Smith
Senior Scholar Papers
Contents -
At the Starry Night Cafe
AIbino Buffalo
Monteverdi In The Rain
Lust
Litter
Poem After The Chinese
Cleere's Pub
Treasure Island
Nipple
Periwinkle
Talkeetna
Beached Whale
Spending Christmas in the land of Enchantment
Easter
Poem For Emily Dickinson
Second Hand Gifts
The Power Outage
October
In The Observation Car
Westerly
Slack Tide, Allison Alsip
The Female Language Barrier: A Close Reading Of The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson And Adrienne Rich, Annmarie Faiella
The Female Language Barrier: A Close Reading Of The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson And Adrienne Rich, Annmarie Faiella
Honors Theses
Historically, the First Amendment right to free speech was limited to certain groups. Language, although constitutionally guaranteed since 1776, has not always been a freedom for everyone. Among those at language's mercy are immigrants, slaves, and women. Women's speech was limited not by a lack of knowledge, but by a societal acceptance of women as inferior.
What then do women do to overcome this ever-present chasm? What women did in the nineteenth century, the 1960s, and are still doing today is: write more creatively. The tighter the restraint of language, the more inventive the woman must be to use it …
Bleeding: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Cecily Von Ziegesar
Bleeding: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Cecily Von Ziegesar
Senior Scholar Papers
Poetry
Short Stories
Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass
Eyes On The Branches: Poems, And An Essay On Contemporary Poetry, Richard Cass
Senior Scholar Papers
The thirty poems collected here were written durin 1972-197. They begin as rather imagistic pieces, but the imagist tendencies are tempered with a preoccupation with the process of emotion. The poems progress through a middle period of finding a poetic voice by combining elements of other styles with the stylistic tendencies that rise out of myself. The subject matter is deliberately varied. The poems emerge, in the last few pieces, as the beginnings of a voice which combines a preoccupation with man in the unity of the world, the state of natural world and the nature of its retaliation for …
To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.
To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson
Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions
No abstract provided.