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Recent acquisitions

February 17, 2016 - Harry Ransom Center

John Milton's Paradise Lost (1692) bound with Paradise Regain'd, and Samson Agonistes (1688).

In 1986, the Ransom Center acquired the celebrated Carl H. Pforzheimer library of English literature, 1475–1700. Rich in the major works of early English literature, the library boasts significant titles by Francis Bacon, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Donne, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, and William Shakespeare. Since its acquisition the Center has added about 40 titles to the collection—five of them in the last year—all within the scope of the library’s focus on early English literature and culture. [Read more…] about Recent acquisitions

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