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Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections Jan 2018

Finding Aid To The Collection Of Celia Thaxter Materials, Celia Thaxter, Colby College Special Collections

Finding Aids

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 Robert Underwood Johnson Materials, Robert Underwood Johnson, Colby College Special Collections Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 Jan 2018

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 …


La Esperanza, Elizabeth Tippet May 2000

La Esperanza, Elizabeth Tippet

Senior Scholar Papers

Poems


Siamese Connection, Rosecrans Baldwin May 1999

Siamese Connection, Rosecrans Baldwin

Senior Scholar Papers

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Power Outage, And Other Poems, Wendy Oram-Smith May 1995

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 May 1994

Slack Tide, Allison Alsip

Senior Scholar Papers

No abstract provided.


Bleeding: A Collection Of Poetry And Short Fiction, Cecily Von Ziegesar May 1992

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 May 1973

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 Dec 1895

To Joseph S. Ford - December 21, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Dec 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - December 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Dec 1895

To George W. Latham - December 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Dec 1895

To Joseph S. Ford - December 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - November 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Chauncey G. Hubbell - November 14, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - November 11, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - November 10, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Nov 1895

To Arthur R. Gledhill - November 3, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Oct 1895

To George W. Latham - October 31, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Oct 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - October 6, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Sep 1895

To George W. Latham - September 22, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Sep 1895

To George W. Latham - September 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Aug 1895

To George W. Latham - August 29, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Arthur R. Gledhill - August 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Aug 1895

To Arthur R. Gledhill - August 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - August 19, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Aug 1895

To George W. Latham - August 19, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To George W. Latham - June 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Jun 1895

To George W. Latham - June 20, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - June 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Jun 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - June 15, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - June 9, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson Jun 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - June 9, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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To Harry De Forest Smith - May 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson May 1895

To Harry De Forest Smith - May 26, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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