Tag: Emily Dickinson

  • Nation & World

    Legend of rap hears kinship with Dickinson

    During Harvard visit, Public Enemy rapper visits poetry class and donates one of his iconic clocks.

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    Elisa New and Flavor Flav.
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    Belle of Amherst 2.0 (feat. Emily D)

    Production archive materials donated by the Apple+ TV series “Dickinson” arrived at Harvard’s Houghton Library.

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    Items from the Dickinson collection.
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    Places we love

    Harvard students, professors, alumni, and staff talk about the places on campus they love most.

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    Harvard square as seen from above
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    Emily Dickinson, on the screen

    Terence Davies, director of the new Emily Dickinson biopic “A Quiet Passion” talks with The Gazette about his challenges in making movies, his artistic kinship with Dickinson, and what drew him to her deeply internal, isolated life.

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    A new holiday song cycle

    The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society premiered Paul Moravec’s composition at a holiday concert.

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    The digital Dickinson

    Houghton Library and Harvard University Press are two of the leading partners in the new Emily Dickinson Archive, a joint venture with other institutions that brings together most of her poem manuscripts.

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    100 years of Harvard University Press

    This year marks the 100th anniversary of Harvard University Press (HUP), and as part of a yearlong celebration Houghton Library is hosting an exhibition of HUP publications, correspondence, and other materials.

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    ‘From Austen to Zola’

    Works from Amy Lowell’s collection are showcased in “From Austen to Zola: Amy Lowell as a Collector,” Houghton Library’s fall exhibition. This exhibit opens on Sept. 4 and will run through Jan. 12, 2013.

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    Treasure island

    Houghton Library illustrates how the stuff of great literature is conserved, from the first jumbled box to the final neat archive.

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    The history at Houghton

    Houghton, a template for university literary archives everywhere, also has room for the odd: A Thoreau pencil, a Dickinson teacup, and more.

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    The Weissman Center at work

    The Weissman Preservation Center, an arm of Harvard Library that recently hosted a group of Russian conservators for training, celebrated its first decade last year.

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    Julia Budenz, poet and Harvard staffer, 76

    Poet and Harvard staff member Julia Budenz died in Cambridge on Dec. 11 at the age of 76.

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    Vendler on Dickinson

    Renowned critic Helen Vendler takes on Amherst’s own Emily Dickinson in her new book, “Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries.”

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    Emily as art

    A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.

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