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.
