Papers, n.d. [manuscript].

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Papers, n.d. [manuscript].

Collection includes a typescript of Arthur Davison Ficke's poem "Portrait of that renowned gentleman Vachel Lindsay as at the first poetry dinner he confronted the Celtic lion & bit him in the leg." In a letter, n.d., Ficke writes to Lindsay concerning the tribute he is writing about Lindsay. Also included are a manuscript segment of Ficke's play "The Lonelyville Social Club"; a printed copy of Ashley Kizer's poem "Lost quarry" & a photograph of Verma Haywood.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7920195

University of Virginia. Library

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Monroe, Harriet, 1860-1936

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Poet and founding editor of Poetry: a Magazine of Verse. From the description of Papers, 1873-1944 (inclusive). (University of Chicago Library). WorldCat record id: 56101856 American editor, critic, and poet. Harriet Monroe was born in Chicago in 1860, and she remained identified all her life with the city. After gaining some local recognition as a poet, a newspaper critic and a lecturer on poetry, Monroe's literary reputation was based on her concep...

Ficke, Arthur Davison, 1883-1945

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Arthur Davison Ficke (1883-1945), American poet and collector of Japanese prints. His works include Sonnets of a Portrait Painter(1914), Chats on Japanese Prints (1915), Out of Silence and Other Poems (1924), and Mrs. Morton of Mexico, (1939), a novel. From the description of Arthur Davison Ficke Papers 1865-1971. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702134010 Ficke (Harvard, A.B., 1904) served as Curator of Japanese Prints at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard. From the d...

Lindsay, Vachel, 1879-1931

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Nicholas Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, IL. He studied in Ohio, Chicago, and New York and acquired a reputation as a poet and lecturer. Lindsay became famous for his walk from Springfield, IL to New Mexico in 1912, and for an unusual method of writing poetry. In 1924 he arrived in Spokane where he worked as a columnist for the "Spokesman-Review". He returned to Springfield in 1929, and at the time of his death was a major figure in American poetry. From the description of Co...

Haywood, Verma

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Kizer, Ashley.

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