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Poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered general works on poetry and works limited to the philosophy of poetry. Works discussing collectively the technique and philosophy of poetry and works limited to the technique of poetry are entered under Poetics.

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Redwood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0676
Abstract

This collection contains primarily letters from Lt. George Buchanan Redwood (1888-1918) to his mother Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood (1861-1940) as well as the sympathy letters she received after he was killed in action on May 28, 1918 during World War I. Also included in the collection is the correspondence of William E. Coale (1816-1865) and George Buchanan Coale (1819-1887) and a volume of poems entitled "Random Rhymes at Truant Times" belonging to John Greene Proud, Jr. (1813-1883).

Dates: 1828-1919

Redwood collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1530.1
Abstract

The papers in this collection belonged to Mary Buchanan Coale Redwood, and consist of some of her personal letters, letters to George B. Coale and Charles Bradenbaugh, four loose-leaf binders of copied letters and records about her son, George B. Redwood, transcribed papers of the Hopkinson, Duche, Dorsey, Coale and other families, and copies of essays and poems.

Dates: 1766-1938

Reverend Thomas Chase notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0229
Abstract

This collection contains Reverend Thomas Chase's 1759 English translation of Silius Italius's epic poem, "The Punicks," the longest surviving Latin poem from antiquity about the Second Punic War.

Dates: 1759

Sarah Betts commonplace book

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0128
Abstract

Commonplace book of Sarah Maria Augusta Betts, selected from contemporary poets circa 1818.

Dates: circa 1818

Sarah Briggs album of poetry

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0139
Abstract

Verse and prose writings, both original and copied, begun by Sarah B. Briggs in Alexandria, Virginia and continued by her and Deborah Stabler in Montgomery County, Maryland.

Dates: 1828 - 1840

Vincent Godfrey Burns papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 2493
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of Vincent Godfrey Burns (1893-1979), a Congregationalist minister and Poet Laureate of Maryland.

Dates: 1918 - 1979

William M. Marine collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 1016
Abstract

William Matthew Marine, 1843-1904, was a Baltimore attorney, the collector of the Port of Baltimore during the 1890's, and an amateur writer. This collection contains 32 boxes comprised of his legal and political correspondence, notes, and clippings from 1808-1904.

Dates: 1808-1904

William P. Preston collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0978
Abstract The William P. Preston Collection contains primarily three groups of material: papers of William P. Preston, prominent Baltimore criminal lawyer; correspondence of his wife Margaret Smith Preston; and correspondence as well as other material related to their daughter May Preston McNeal. The items pertaining to William P. Preston are nearly all connected with his legal practice. Included are accounts, bills, and receipts associated with insolvency and debt collection cases; case note; court...
Dates: 1799-1913