Alexander Gilchrist’s The Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus” ABL Brownings’ Lib Cop BL-C B B636gi 1863 v.1 and v. 2 Rare Item Analysis: Alexander Gilchrist’s The Life of William Blake, “Pictor Ignotus” By Anna McKay When William Blake died in 1827, only a handful of…
Robert Browning’s personal copy of The Ring and the Book, E0422 in the Browning Database Rare Item Analysis: A Gift Rediscovered: Robert Browning’s Revised The Ring and the Book By Aaron Cassidy One of the many treasures housed in the Armstrong Browning Library, on the campus…
Items related to Robert Browning’s “Christmas Eve” Letter from Ella Sophia Armitage to Robert Browning, December 6th. 1889 1850 Edition of “Christmas-Eve” owned by William Allingham with reader’s manuscript jingle. Browning Guide M0107. ABLibrary Rare X 821.83 P5 C466c c. 6 1850 Edition of…
Responses to the Chartists J.W. Whittaker’s Sermon to the Chartists ABLibrary 19thCent OVZ BX5133.W542x D7 1839 J.A. Jones’s New Church “Songs and Ballads” Set to Old Cathedral Music: An Analytical Review of “Songs and Ballads for the People” ABLibrary 19thCent OVZ BX5135.J66 1843 Christian Remembrancer‘s “Review of:…
Artifacts related to Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh Manuscript of Aurora Leigh (Browning Guide D0051) Author’s proof corrections for Aurora Leigh (Browning Guide D0058) Author’s proof corrections for Aurora Leigh (Browning Guide D0061) Fly-sheet inscription (W.M. Rossetti, From the Authoress”) from Rare Book (ABLibrary…
Baron Alfred Tennyson Manuscript: “To the Queen” Draft [N.D.] Rare Item Analysis: Comparison of an Early Draft of Tennyson’s “To the Queen” [N.D.] and the 1851 Published Version By Loren Warf About the Manuscript: Among the holdings of the Armstrong Browning Library (ABL)…
Correspondence from William Wordsworth: To Allen Cunningham, January 8, 1827 To John Abraham Heraud, June 10, 1834 To Francis Merewether, August 7, 1829 Rare Item Analysis: Insights from Wordsworth’s Personal Correspondence by Becca Craigen By examining a few of Wordsworth’s letters housed in…
Thursday, January 13 3:30-4:30pm ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Stephen Prickett (English, University of Kent, UK): “Backing into the Future: Romanticism, Secularization and the Reinvention of Literature” Friday, February 5 3:30-4:30pm ABL Lecture Hall ABL 2015 Teaching Fellows: Heidi Hornik (Art) and Sarah Rude…
Jan. 14 Dr. Stephen Prickett (English, University of Kent, UK) will present “Backing into the Future: Romanticism, Secularization and the Reinvention of Literature.” In his Third Critique, Immanuel Kant assumes that literature – and specifically poetry – is naturally the premier art form, in essence…
“The Sankhya Karika” Manuscript by Henry David Thoreau This manuscript from Thoreau was acquired in the late 80’s or early 90’s when Dr. John Belew (Provost at the time) was diligently expanding the ABL’s Nineteenth Century Collection. The manuscript had been inserted by…