The Vincent Godfrey Burns Papers, [ca. 193-? - 1969].

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The Vincent Godfrey Burns Papers, [ca. 193-? - 1969].

The collection includes correspondence, printed and manuscript drafts of poems, brochures, reviews, programs, notices, and clippings.

.4 linear ft. (1 box)

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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...