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Category : Imaginary books and libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Haughton Library Report of Accessions for the Year 1949-1950
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imaginary books and libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Haughton Library, 1949-50
Author: Collation ClubPublisher:
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Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
A Houghton Library Chronicle, 1942-1992
Author: Houghton LibraryPublisher: Houghton Library
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Harvard's home for rare books and manuscripts opened in 1942, and thanks to the energy of a small group of librarians and the creativity and generosity of its benefactor, Arthur Houghton, it quickly emerged as a center of inquiry and memory without equal. This 1992 volume, compiled by senior Houghton librarians, blends documentary with oral history to look back on the library's origins, the growth of its collections, and the activities of the staff who made it a home for precious books and original scholarship.
Robert Lowell
Author: Ian HamiltonPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571282628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Boston family Robert Lowell was not yet thirty when his first major collection of poems, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. With Life Studies, his third book, he found the intense, highly personal voice that made him the foremost American poet of his generation. He held strong, complex and very public political views. His private life was turbulent, marred by manic depression and troubled marriages. But in this superb biography (first published in 1982) the poet Ian Hamilton illuminates both the life and the work of Lowell with sympathetic understanding and consummate narrative skill. 'Our one consolation for Ian Hamilton's early death is that his work seems to have lived on with undiminished force... The critical prose, in particular, still sets a standard that nobody else comes near.' Clive James
The Houghton Library Report of Accessions for the Year 1949-50
Author: Houghton LibraryThe International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians
Author: Oscar ThompsonPublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 2506
Book Description
American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960
Author: Steven BellettoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108307817
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
American Literature in Transition, 1950–1960 explores the under-recognized complexity and variety of 1950s American literature by focalizing discussions through a series of keywords and formats that encourage readers to draw fresh connections among literary form and concepts, institutions, cultures, and social phenomena important to the decade. The first section draws attention to the relationship between literature and cultural phenomena that were new to the 1950s. The second section demonstrates the range of subject positions important in the 1950s, but still not visible in many accounts of the era. The third section explores key literary schools or movements associated with the decade, and explains how and why they developed at this particular cultural moment. The final section focuses on specific forms or genres that grew to special prominence during the 1950s. Taken together, the chapters in the four sections not only encourage us to rethink familiar texts and figures in new lights, but they also propose new archives for future study of the decade.
Late Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, 1350-1525, in the Houghton Library
Author: Houghton LibraryPublisher: Houghton Library
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Although the advent of the printing press heralded the end of the manuscript, the illuminated text still flourished through the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Many such manuscripts are works of extraordinary expressive power and have much to tell about the history of the graphic arts as well. Roger Wieck's catalogue carefully describes the extraordinary collection of graduals, breviaries, books of hours, and works of classical and vernacular literature assembled over the decades at Houghton Library.
Elizabeth Bishop
Author: Brett C. MillierPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520203453
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 639
Book Description
Biography of poet Elizabeth Bishop that pieces together the compelling and painful story of her life and traces the writing of her poems.
The Library
Author: Sir John Young Walker MacAlisterPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description