Weismiller, Edward R., 1937 August 5
Scope and Content
"Wilderness." Typed poem; date added in ink. 1 leaf.
Dates
- Creation: 1937 August 5
Creator
- From the Collection: Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: Allmond, Marcus Blakey (Person)
- From the Collection: Andros, R. S. S. (Richard Salter Storrs) (Person)
- From the Collection: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (Person)
- From the Collection: Burgess, Gelett (Person)
- From the Collection: Cooper, James Fenimore (Person)
- From the Collection: Davie, Donald (Person)
- From the Collection: Gioia, Dana (Person)
- From the Collection: Gosse, Edmund (Person)
- From the Collection: Herford, Oliver (Person)
- From the Collection: Howard, Robert, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 (Person)
- From the Collection: Lindsay, Vachel (Person)
- From the Collection: Lofting, Hugh (Person)
- From the Collection: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Person)
- From the Collection: Mabie, Hamilton Wright (Person)
- From the Collection: Maeterlinck, Maurice (Person)
- From the Collection: Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 (Person)
- From the Collection: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 (Person)
- From the Collection: Perkoff, Stuart Z. (Person)
- From the Collection: Porter, Cole (Person)
- From the Collection: Read, Thomas Buchanan (Person)
- From the Collection: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Runyon, Damon (Person)
- From the Collection: Ruskin, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Saltus, Edgar (Person)
- From the Collection: Sherman, Frank Dempster (Person)
- From the Collection: Stevenson, Robert Louis (Person)
- From the Collection: Vale, Eugene (Person)
- From the Collection: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 (Person)
- From the Collection: Weismiller, Edward Ronald (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, Carolyn (Person)
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Biographical note
Edward Weismiller (1915-2010), one of the original editors of A Variorum Commentary on the Poems of John Milton, passed away in August 2010. Professor Weismiller received his B.A. degree from Cornell College, his M.A. degree from Harvard University, and his D. Phil. degree from Oxford University. He was a Rhodes Scholar (1938-39 and 1948-50). He served on the faculties of Pomona College (1950-1967) and the George Washington University (1968-1980). His principal scholarly publications focused on English verse form. In addition to his scholarship, Professor Weismiller published four books of poetry: The Deer Come Down, which was chosen by Stephen Vincent Benét for publication in the Yale Series of Younger Poets, 1936; The Faultless Shore, 1946; The Branch of Fire, 1979; and Walking Toward the Sun, 2002. His espionage novel, The Serpent Sleeping, was published in 1962. In 2001, Professor Weismiller received the Robert Fitzgerald Award for lifetime contributions to the study of metrics and versification.
http://lists.richmond.edu/pipermail/milton-l/2010-September/012135.html
Extent
From the Collection: 0.42 Linear Feet (1 legal-size document box)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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