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Angels In America And Rent: Aids Through The Ages, Nicole Motahari
Angels In America And Rent: Aids Through The Ages, Nicole Motahari
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
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Popular Depression: How Literature Is Affecting The Female Image, Samantha Bloodworth
Popular Depression: How Literature Is Affecting The Female Image, Samantha Bloodworth
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference
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“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson
“Send Me A Nice Little Letter All To Myself”: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’S Fan Mail And Antebellum Poetic Culture, Jill E. Anderson
University Library Faculty Publications
This paper examines fan mail written to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during the 1840s and 1850s, as he made the transition from emerging poet to being one of the best-known and most influential American poets of his time. Longfellow’s admirers wrote him letters praising his poetry, but also making requests for tokens of his presence and esteem: handwritten lines of his poetry, pencils, portraits, locks of hair, and in one case, his daughter’s hand in marriage. Claiming to “know” Longfellow through his poetry, admirers often also identified themselves as being in “debt” to Longfellow for his beautiful poetry, and sought …
Transported Traditions: Transatlantic Foundations Of Southern Folk Culture, John Burrison
Transported Traditions: Transatlantic Foundations Of Southern Folk Culture, John Burrison
English Faculty Publications
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