|
Exhibitions at The Research Libraries Victorians, Moderns, and Beats: New in the Berg Collection, 1994-2001From April 26, 2002 through July 27, 2002  This exhibition will display a selection of materials acquired by the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature since 1994 (the year following the last such exhibition) to the present. Divided into two sections--Great Britain/Ireland and America--it will include books, manuscripts, notebooks, photographs, and other archival materials of noted poets and writers. The British portion of the exhibition opens with an autograph manuscript of an unpublished poem by George Crabbe (1754-1832), dating probably from the late eighteenth century. The nineteenth century is represented by Herman Melville's inscribed copy of The Piazza Tales, and three albums of largely unpublished literary fragments by Walt Whitman. However, the great majority of the writers in the exhibition date from the twentieth century, including T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Dylan Thomas, Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Saul Bellow. A significant portion of the American half of the exhibition is devoted to the Beats, especially Jack Kerouac, whose archive was recently purchased. |