Date Published: 1850 to 1911 Binding: No binding & hard cover Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the author of Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and many poetry collections, Longfellow (1807-1882) was America’s greatest poet of the nineteenth century. He was also a translator, educator, and novelist. The collection consists of 52... More about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow collection
Date Published: 1786 to 1834 Binding: Samuel Rogers was an English poet, banker, and art collector, and best remembered as a witty conversationalist and as a friend of greater poets and politicians, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Charles James Fox. The collection consists of 11 items dating from 1786... More about Samuel Rogers collection
Date Published: 1844 to 1890 Binding: Bayard Taylor (1825-1878) was an American poet, novelist, literary critic, translator, travel writer, and diplomat. Taylor is widely accredited with writing the first American gay novel: Joseph and His Friend: A Story of Pennsylvania. The collection contains 12 items dating from 1844 to... More about Bayard Taylor collection
Date Published: 1874 to 1916 Binding: William Dean Howells nicknamed “The Dean of American Letters”, was a prolific realist novelist, literary critic (Atlantic Monthly), poet, and playwright. He was a close colleague and friend with many major American writers of the nineteenth century, including Henry Adams, William James, Henry... More about William Dean Howells collection
Date Published: 1818 to 1954 Binding: Greenland missionary work collection contains 4 items dating from 1818 to 1954 specifically 3 books and one ALS letter. 3 Books (1 ALS letter with one book) • James Montgomery. Greenland, and Other Poems. London: Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst... More about Hans Poulsen Egede collection (1686-1758
Date Published: 1928 to 1987 Binding: Dorothy Livesay is considered one of Canada’s pre-eminent poets and the winner of two Governor General’s Awards (1944, 1947). Following the publication of Green Pitcher (1928) when she was only nineteen years of age, she published Signpost (1932). This was followed by twenty-two... More about Dorothy Livesay collection
Date Published: 1887-1920 Binding: No binding & soft cover Amy Lowell was an American poet critic, and woman of letters who became a powerful leader in the modernist poetry movement known as Imagism. She was posthumously was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. The collection consists of three... More about Amy Lowell collection