Vincent Godfrey Burns Papers before 1969

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Vincent Godfrey Burns Papers before 1969

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/burns_vg.htm

Congregationalist minister and Poet Laureate of Maryland. Collection includes manuscripts, correspondence, clippings, printed material, and published items.

1.5 linear ft.

eng,

Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center

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Burns, Vincent Godfrey, 1893-

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Vincent Godfrey Burns, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1893, was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1962 until his death in 1979. He was ordained as a minister and later published poems, television scripts, plays, and a novel, often expressing his conservative political and religious convictions. He and his brother Robert collaborated on I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, which was made into a movie in 1932. Burns's papers include correspondence, poems, manuscripts, galleys, newspaper clippin...