January 25, 2022, Filed Under: Featured1Annual celebration of Robert Burns marks poet’s birth on January 25 January 25th is often called “Burns Night” in honor of the birthday of Romantic-era poet and lyricist Robert Burns (1759-1796), and it is an official holiday in his native Scotland.
January 19, 2022, Filed Under: Digital Collections, Featured1Sheet music composed for Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘A Dream Within A Dream’ American writer, poet, editor and critic Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809. The Ransom Center’s Edgar Allan Poe collection contains several manuscript works and about 70 letters written by Poe, and works about him.
December 16, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Curator’s Introduction: Women and the Making of James Joyce’s Ulysses by CLARE HUTTON Introduction by Gregory Curtis Giving Ulysses to the World February 2, 2022, will mark one hundred years since the publication of a book that changed literature forever. Irish novelist James Joyce’s pioneering modernist novel, Ulysses, was a labor to write and more so, perhaps, to publish.
December 6, 2021, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Featured1A Rare Gift: First-edition Principia highlights extraordinary collection The Ransom Center recently received a generous donation from the James M. Vaughn, Jr., Vaughn Foundation Fund of important books in the history of mathematics. The earliest volumes supplement the Center’s existing strength in early materials on the history of science and mathematics, and others productively expand the range of… read more
November 26, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1ASCENT TO GLORY: The Writer and the Manuscript Excerpt from Ascent to Glory: How One Hundred Years of Solitude Was Written and Became a Global Classic (New York, Columbia University Press, 2020) by Álvaro Santana-Acuña, guest curator for the Gabriel García Márquez: The Making of a Global Writer exhibition on view through Jan. 2, 2022 in the galleries. Used… read more
October 18, 2021, Filed Under: Authors, Featured1The Writer on Her Work: An Interview with Janet Sternburg Forty years after the publication of her groundbreaking book, The Writer on Her Work (1980), author and photographer Janet Sternburg donated her papers relating to the book and its follow-up volume, The Writer on Her Work: New Essays in New Territory (1991), to the Ransom Center.
