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Poets

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Robert Anbian papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16922
Content Description This collection contains the papers of poet, author, publisher, and political activist Robert White Anbian (1949-2022). Anbian graduated from the University of Virginia in 1971, after which he spent three years in Niger with the Peace Corps from 1974 to 1977. He then relocated to San Francisco, where he worked as a writer and poet until his death. From 1985 to 1996, Robert served as the editor of the monthly Film Arts Foundation magazine, Release Print, and the publicist for an independent...
Dates: 1974-2022

William Cullen Bryant papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6244

McDonald Clarke collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7546
Content Description

This collection of McDonald Clarke papers contains one autograph poem titled "Midnight" from 1815, an undated manuscript poem fragment beginning "They tell me we shall never meet" from Clarke's Afara; receipts for the sale of books to William Gowans from Clarke dated October 28, 1837, and from Francis G. Dorr, dated October 25, 1837; and an undated lithograph of the head and upper torso of Clarke.

Dates: 1815-1837

Barrett Minor Literary collection

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 16460

Collection of documentaries on Anne Spencer's garden

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 16709
Content Description

This collection contains two VHS tapes titled "Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden" and a segment from "Garden story with Rebecca Frischkorn" titled "Anne Spencer Garden." The documentaries focus on the impact and importance of Spencer's garden to herself, her community, and other artists and writers.

Tape 1 contains Anne Spencer: Echoes from the Garden Tape 2 contains Garden Story "Anne Spencer Garden"

Dates: undated, c.2008

Flame & Frost poem

 Collection — Box BW 56, Folder: 001
Identifier: MSS 16750
Content Description

This collection contains a handwritten poem written by Joan St. C. Crane based on her experiences of compiling the works of poet Robert Frost. It was written at the University of Virginia in the Fall of 1971. Alongside the poem in the collection is a catalogue card outlining the work's title, author, and subject matter.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1971

George and Ellen Frost collection of Robert Frost materials

 Unprocessed Material — Box ViU-2025-0103_001: [Barcode: X032762791]
Identifier: ViU-2025-0103

Langston Hughes photograph

 Collection — Box BW 51, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 16783
Content Description This collection contains a single black-and-white photograph of Langston Hughes, noted American poet and leader of the Harlem Renaissance. In the picture, Hughes is surrounded by students after speaking at Harlem's Public School #113 graduation exercises which was also attended by students at James Madison High School and New York City grade school students. Mimeographed caption label with "Newspictures, Inc. ... please credit 'Acme Photo' ..." -- rubber-stamped on verso....
Dates: June 25, 1945

Langston Hughes photograph

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: ViU-2023-0066

Manuscript: Landscapes from the Works of William Cullen Bryant addition (MSS 6244-ah)

 Series — Folder 2: Series MSS6244
Identifier: MSS6244
Scope and Contents

Manuscript poems from the Works of William Cullen Bryant with beautiful illustrations of nature painted by students from the Hudson River School of Landscape Painting.

Dates: 1872

Robert Anbian papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2025-0039

Ruth Stone papers

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2022-0012

Stanislaw J. Jr. and Alice Lee Makielski papers-addition 1

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: ViU-2023-0093

William Cullen Bryant letter

 Unprocessed Material — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032571323]
Identifier: ViU-2022-0070

William Cullen Bryant letter to Elizabeth Oakes Smith addition (ViU-2022-0070), May 29, 1872

 Series — Folder 1: [Barcode: X032571323]
Scope and Contents This collection contains a letter from William Cullen Bryant, American poet, journalist, and longtime editor of the New York Evening Post, to Elizabeth Oakes Smith, poet and essayist. In 1872 Bryant made a speech in New York on May 22 at the dedication of John Quincey Adams Ward's statue of Shakespeare on the Mall in Central Park. Here, a week after the speech, Bryant acknowledges Mrs. Oakes Smith's praise: "I completed it in the hope that it might not altogether displease such judges as...
Dates: May 29, 1872