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 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.