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• New acquisitions on Romanticism
  Posted October 28, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  Several new critical works on William Wordsworth, his contemporaries, and English Romanticism have been added to the Edward M. Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth. These include: Arthur H. Bell, “The child in Wordsworth’s major poetry: a master metaphor and its implications.”  Lexingford Publishing, 2010. Jacqueline Labbe, “Writing romanticism: Charlotte Smith and William Wordsworth, 1784-1807.”  Palgrave [...]

• New acquisitions in British Romanticism
  Posted April 26, 2011 by Maggie Kopp

  BYU Special Collections’ latest acquisitions for the Robert Burns Collection and the Edward M. Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth include critical works, translations, and books on literature and art inspired by these two poets: Douglas Gifford, ed.  Addressing the Bard: Twelve Contemporary Poets Respond to Robert Burns.  (2009) Cecilia Powell. Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts: [...]

• New acquisitions to the Wordsworth Collection
  Posted May 14, 2009 by Maggie Kopp

  Two notable recent additions to the Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth: William Green, A description of a series of 60 small prints (1814). This book contains etchings of the Lake District by an artist from Ambleside.  Green originally intended to include a tourist guide as well, but the cost of printing the illustrations alone prohibited [...]

• New resources for the literary author collections
  Posted August 14, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  BYU actively collects works by and about five British and American literary authors: William Wordsworth, Robert Burns, Herman Melville, Louisa May Alcott, and Walt Whitman. To help researchers better explore the contents of these collections, Special Collections is adding new resources to our website. Each of the pages for the five author collections will soon [...]

• English Romantic literature in L. Tom Perry Special Collections
  Posted August 5, 2008 by Maggie Kopp

  Although the collection of Victorian and Edwardian literature is the premier literary collection at L. Tom Perry Special Collections, we also have a significant number of first editions by Romantic authors in our holdings. This is in part because of the Edward M. Rowe Collection of William Wordsworth, but other Romantic poets like Samuel Taylor [...]