An Inventory of Responses from American Authors in Its Collection at the Harry
Ransom
Center
Creator:
The Critic (New York, N.Y. :
1884)
Title:
Collection of Responses from American
Authors
Dates:
1888
Extent:
1 bound volume (bv) (0.084 linear
feet)
Abstract:
Comprises a small collection of responses
from twenty-six American authors to the question “Has America Produced a Poet?” as
posed by
Edmund Gosse in Forum magazine in 1888. The editors of The Critic magazine, Jeanette Leonard Gilder and Joseph Benson
Gilder, solicited these responses from the “Forty Immortals” elected by The Critic’s readers in 1884. Among the notable respondents are
Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Walt Whitman, and John Greenleaf
Whittier.
Call Number:
Manuscript Collection
MS-54147
Language:
English
Access:
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
The Critic Collection of Responses from American Authors
(Manuscript Collection MS-54147). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at
Austin.
Acquisition:
Gift, Stark Collection, 1926
Processed by:
Joan Sibley and Richard Workman, 2019
Note:
This finding aid replicates and replaces information previously available only in
a card
catalog. Please see the explanatory note at the end of this finding aid for information
regarding the arrangement of the manuscripts as well as the abbreviations commonly
used in
descriptions.
Twenty-six responses by American authors to an article in Forum magazine by
Edmund Gosse titled "Has America Produced a Poet?"; written at the request of Jeanette
Leonard Gilder and Joseph Benson Gilder, editors of The Critic magazine, in 1888.
From
the Stark Collection. Formerly cataloged as MS X-4. All items tipped into a bound
volume:
