February 1, 2022, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Featured1Women and the Making of Joyce’s Ulysses: A History in Ten Objects #1 Image: Copy number 17 of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, signed by the author (Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922). Carlton Lake Collection, (PR 6019 O9 U4 1922, copy 3), Harry Ransom Center. #1: Copy number 17 of the first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses, signed by the author,… read more
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.
