Browse Collections (4 total)

DIGITAL EXHIBITION Beauty Bound as 19th-Century British Propaganda: From London to Bengal

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By November 1822, the British reading public had already voraciously consumed both Walter Scott’s expensive novels and Rudolf Ackermann’s exquisite…

DIGITAL EXHIBITION Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Last Bohemian

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Lawrence Monsanto Ferling  was born on March 24, 1919 in Yonkers, New York. His literary life began when his guardian became the governess for a…

DIGITAL COLLECTION: A Definite Claim to Beauty: the Kelmscott Press and the Aesthetics of the Book

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William Morris was fascinated by English history from a young age, and while at Oxford, deepened his interest in Medieval history, art, and…

DIGITAL EXHIBITION: Visual Poetry

Poets, scribes, and printers throughout history have taken advantage of the fact that poetry is both a visual and a verbal art. Defining visual poetry…

Contributors: Haerin Kim and Elizabeth Newsom