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#232 "The Public Life of Poetry: Whitman, Dickinson, Longfellow, and Their Contemporaries"

Posted by Tara Peterson on Tue, Dec 14, 2010

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This exhibit of American poetry features early editions and manuscripts by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson; political broadsides and ephemera by John Greenleaf Whittier and Ralph Waldo Emerson; collections of dialect poetry by James Whitcomb Riley and Paul Laurence Dunbar, and more. A collaborative exhibit by the graduate students and faculty of the Department of English at UMass Boston and the Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Boston Public Library.

Where: The Boston Public Library: Central Branch: Rare Book Department, Boston Public Library.
When:On-going throughout December