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Item Autobiography and African American Women’s Literature(Cambridge University Press, 2010-01-01) Braxton, Joanne MItem Symbolic Geography and Psychic Landscapes: A Conversation with Maya Angelou(Oxford University Press, 1998) Braxton, Joanne MItem Comments on Amy Clampitt’s 'Matoaka'(William & Mary, 1994) Meyers, Terry L."If you're a poet compelled to write a poem for a particular occasion, your muse might well freeze up. Almost a century ago, for example, at Charter Day, 1897, Thomas W. Higginson hailed the College in a poem that included a pleasing tribute (couched in a clever metaphor) from Harvard to William & Mary as "Thou earliest College of our native land/ The first conceived, yet not the earliest born!" But Higginson's poem is flaccid, done in by the bombast characteristic of the genre..."Item Algernon Charles Swinburne(Wiley- Blackwell, 2015-01-01) Meyers, Terry L.Item Swinburne Shapes His Grand Passion: A Version by ‘Ashford Owen.’(1993-04-01) Meyers, Terry L."That a blighted love lies at the heart of many of Swinburne's works has long impelled scholars and biographers to search for details as to the who, the where, and the when of the affair. The first candidate was nomi- nated by Edmund Gosse and Thomas James Wise and was supposed to be a young miss, a Jane "Boo" Faulkner. Her candidacy, however, withered under the scrutiny of John Mayfield and Cecil Y. Lang, and a substitute was found: the poet's first cousin Mary Charlotte Julia Gordon Leith (1840-1926), a writer who married a military man, Col. Robert William Disney Leith, and whose suggestive correspondence with Swinburne flourished after her husband died in 1892..."Item Shelley’s Influence on Atalanta in Calydon(1976-07-01) Meyers, Terry L."A close study of Swinburne's works reveals the accuracy of Paul de Reul's perception that Swinburne "relit ses poetes, s'en impregne, les respire; mele a ses vers des reminiscences qui en font une musique de chambre, un plaisir de connaisseurs."1 In work after work by Swinburne, the alert reader will find subtly-harmonized images, phrases, and ideas that Swinburne assimilated from his wide reading among authors of many lands and times. Among these sources, as we would expect, Shelley has a continuing place. An example of one of the ways Swinburne adopts and reworks material from one of his life- long gods of poetry is apparent in Shelley's influence on Atalanta in Calydon.."Item Two Poems by Swinburne: ‘Milton’ and On Wagner’s Music(1993-07-01) Meyers, Terry L."In working on an edition of Swinburne's correspondence, I have in the last several years discovered two previously unknown poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. One has existed for decades in the British Library's Ashley Collection, unrecognized probably because it survives in the form of a copy not in Swinburne's hand. The other, a signed holograph which I bought from a bookseller in Texas, has a provenance that is unknown. Swinburne appears to have wanted to publish both, though circumstances in each case made that infeasible..."Item Introduction to "Victorian Poetry" Vol. 14, Iss. 4(2009-01-01) Meyers, Terry L.; Rooksby, RickyPart I, by Rikky Rooksby Part II, by Terry L. MeyersItem Swinburne’s Copyright: Gone Missing(1993-07-01) Meyers, Terry L."For seventy-six years William Heinemann Ltd. has controlled Swinburne's copyright. Now the firm has abandoned it. Given the uncertainty that results, any other claimant should step forward..."Item Found: Swinburne’s Copyright(1995-04-01) Meyers, Terry L."Scholars working with unpublished material by Swinburne or with works by him still covered by copyright will be interested to know that the copyright remains in the hands of its presumptive owner, the successor firm to William Heinemann Ltd..."Item Swinburne’s Conception of Shelley(1980-05-01) Meyers, Terry L."Although Swinburne wrote only three essays exclusively devoted to Shelley, his comments on Shelley in his poetry, in his letters, and in the rest of his essays are all but innumerable. In the present study, I intend to examine those comments that are germane to understanding how Swinburne conceived of Shelley as an advocate of political and religious freedom. Such a focus must leave out many aspects of Shelley that Swinburne commented on but which are not central to understanding the importance of Shelley to Swinburne..."Item An Interview with Tennyson on Poe(1975-11-01) Meyers, Terry L."In 1926 Mary E. Phillips was able to refer casually and without documentation to a time "when Alfred Tennyson said that the only thing he wished to see in America was the grave of Edgar Allan Poe." By 1973 Gerhard J. Joseph, properly cautious, had to characterize Tennyson's remark as "reputed." Now, however, a source for Phillips' claim has come to light. The following note appears in the New York Times, February 13, 1886 (p. 2, col. 6)..."Item Second Thoughts On Rossetti: Tennyson’s Revised Letter of October 12, 1882(1993-11-01) Meyers, Terry L."Although Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. include in The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson the incomplete draft of a letter Tennyson prepared to send William Sharp (1855-1905), the writer, poet, and friend and biographer of D. G. Rossetti, they overlook a printing of the letter as actually sent, after Tennyson revised it significantly..."Item An Interview with William Morris, September, 1885: His Arrest and Freedom of Speech(1991) Meyers, Terry L."Until recently, it had been presume that after William Morris was arrested on September 21, 1885, in a me lee at the Thames Police Court, he made no public comment on the incident (Thompson 398). Norman Kelvin's edition of Morris's letters, however, includes a letter about the incident to the Daily News published on September 23, 1885 (Morris 456-57). To this letter may now be added the following interview with Morris printed in the Pall Mall Gazette, also on September 23, 1885, p. 4..."Item William Morris on Prostitution: A Letter of August 17, 1885(2003-01-01) Meyers, Terry L."The following letter by William Morris refer to the St. James's Hall Conference and Hyde Park demonstration of August 21 and 22, 1885. The letter is not in []orman Kelvin' The Collected Letters of William Morris, 3 vol. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984t but appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette, August 19, 1885, p. 12..."Item G. O. Trevelyan: Morality and the ‘Cambridge University Boat of 1860(1990) Meyers, Terry L."I have recently acquired a letter by the distinguished historian George Otto Trevelyan (1838-1928) that will amuse readers and underline some cherished suppositions about the Victorian Age. It will, moreover, apparently recover several lines suppressed in a modest comic poem of some contemporary interest and fame. I can not, unfortunately, discover to whom the letter was addressed, nor whether any subsequent printing, much less enlargement, of the poem came about. Indeed, I cannot even discover precisely where in the poem Trevelyan was suggesting his lines be placed..."Item The Poetry of Sidney Alexander(School of Advanced Study, 2014-01-01) Meyers, Terry L."I find myself the keeper of a modest flame that burns (in Shelley’s image) barely brighter than a taper through the night of time. That flame marks the remnants of a nearly forgotten Victorian poet, Sidney A. Alexander (1866-1948), who won the 1887 Newdigate prize as a student at Oxford. Some of his other youthful poems after Oxford he did publish, and his name is recorded in the literary history of England.1 But Alexander moved from the muses to Christ, and became a canon at St. Paul’s Cathedral, remembered for his impressive work on behalf of the great Wren edifice, especially for protecting it during World War II. At his death, he left behind a body of religious and other books and essays, plus a notebook of his poems, mostly unpublished fair copies. Besides those he had placed in Victorian magazines, he seems to have had a plan to publish others. My responsibilities as keeper began when I bought the notebook from an English book-dealer, Charles Cox, in 2008 for £70. Alexander’s works, appearing here for the first time in full, may not greatly shift the outlines of Victorian poetry. But they are respectable (and often more) — and are interesting as the work between 1881 and 1890 of a young man with a good education and a poetic talent and vocation. At a minimum, the poems are a cultural marker of some largely traditionalist poetic sensibilities in the 1880’s..."Item Will Drew and Phil Crewe & Frank Fane: A Swinburne Enigma(2007-04-01) Meyers, Terry L."Few people perhaps noticed a tentative entry by Cecil Y. Lang in his Swinburne entry in volume 3 of the 1969 New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, an item that had escaped earlier bibliographers: 'Will Drew and Phil Crewe & Frank Fane [1962?] priv prtd.'..."Item John Nichol’s Visit to Virginia, 1865: ‘The James River(2002-01-01) Meyers, Terry L."In the autumn of 1865, a young Scot, John Nichol, a graduate of the University of Glasgow and Oxford University, sailed down the Chesapeake Bay and up the James River from Baltimore to Petersburg and Richmond. Only about six months had passed since the Confederacy had capitulated and the scars of war were raw. Out of Nichol's trip came his poem "The James River" (reprinted below) an evocation of the James as military highway and, more particularly, an interesting sketch of the infamous Petersburg Crater..."Item Swinburne's Speech to the Royal Literary Fund, May 2, 1866(1988-11-01) Meyers, Terry L." Algernon Charles Swinburne made so few formal presentations to any kind of audience that only a single public one, so far as I know, is recorded- his reply to a toast at the Royal Literary Fund Dinner of May 2, 1866.' Scholars have thought they had no access to the speech, for, although Edmund Gosse prints a part of it in his biography of Swinburne (along with a slightly distorted account of its presentation) and other biographers include other bits and pieces, it has, to all intents and purposes, dropped from sight; only those able to see the papers of the Royal Literary Fund, Gosse implies, might glimpse the text of what Swinburne said. Surprisingly, however, the full text is available, as is enough other information that one can reconstruct the poet's presentation more completely than heretofore and see the speech as a rather more complex document than has been assumed..."