Tracy W. McGregor Library scrapbook / 1945-1950.

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Tracy W. McGregor Library scrapbook / 1945-1950.

The scrapbook contains McGregor news notes (advisory board minutes), 1945-1950, compiled by John Cook Wyllie ; programs from the McGregor Room Seminars; clippings regarding McGregor Room Seminars; a constitution and membership list, 1947, of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia; andsecretary's news sheets of the Bibliographical Society. The scrapbook also contains copies of McGregor Room Seminar talks and Bibliographical Society of Virginia papers including "The poetry of William Butler Yeats" by Donald A. Stauffer; "The work of James Joyce" by Edwin Berry Burgum; "The poetry of T.S. Eliot" by Willard Thorp; "Description of the six impressions of Washington Irving's Woolfert's Roost" by Fredson Bowers; "The poetry of W.H. Auden" by Theodore Spencer; "Poetry in the age of anxiety" by Cleanth Brooks; "Why 79 first folios?" by Charlton Hinman; "Poetry and freedom" by W.H. Auden; "Literature and ideas" by ReneĢ Wellek; "The work of F. Scott Fitzgerald" by Arthur Mizener; "The value of literary study to society and the individual" by Basil Willey; "A description of the Tracy W. McGregor Libray"; "The Sadleir Black Gothic collection" by Robert K. Black; "Art and neurosis" by Lionel Trilling; "The lion and the honeycomb" by R.P. Blackmur; and five editions of "McGregor Library reading list in American history" (together with a discussion of the success of the program/contest and its cash award sponsored by Colgate Darden, Jr.).

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