June 8, 2016, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingFellows Find: The goat-footed paganism of E. E. Cummings Explore the Harry Ransom Center, search digital collections, or plan your visit. It’s spring: the “mud-luscious”’ and “puddle-wonderful” season whistled in by E. E. Cummings’s most famous poetic creature. He is the little, lame, queer, old man selling balloons: “the goat-footed balloonMan.”
April 29, 2016, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingOut of the classroom, into the collections: Undergraduate class brings students to Ransom Center archives Kathleen (Katy) Telling is a Plan I Honors Junior at The University of Texas at Austin, majoring in History and French. She’s taking Dr. Robert Abzug’s “Religion and Psychology in Modern American Culture,” which meets periodically at the Harry Ransom Center.
April 13, 2016, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsDiscovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright. Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.
