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With an essay by John Russell, this catalogue was published on the occasion of the inaugural exhibition of Alex Katz at Colby College in the Paul J. Schupf Wing of the museum in 1996. 66 works are illustrated. Paperback.
Published by Colby College Press in 1969 for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Edwin Arlington Robinson, here are 28 interpretive essays edited by Richard Cary. Hardcover. 356 pages.
From The Torrent and The Night Before (1896) to the posthumous King Jasper (1935), Edwin Arlington Robinson published a score of new volumes of poetry. For the first twenty years he was rebuffed by editors, distained by critics, and virtually ignored by the public. With the appearance of The Man Against the Sky in 1916 he vaulted to a zenith of regard, and held his place to the day he died.
The consensus of recent literary criticism favors Robinson's work in the earlier period as his finer accomplishment. The question therefore persists: Why, when he was producing his best poems, was Robinson overlooked and underrated? Any effort to resolve this anomaly must take into account the recorded opinions of contemporary critics and the impact they ostensibly conveyed.
To that end is gathered in this volume every known review, interview and essay pertaining to Robinson which was published between 1896 and 1916, excluding appraisals of his two plays... To add to its value as a source book, Cary has recreated the physical and psychological ambience of the times in nine introductory chapters. Hardcover. 321 pages.
The present history seeks to portray the development of the College against the background of the changing times. Marriner (class of 1913) travels through all the history of Colby College, going into great detail in this large volume as he portrays the changes occuring in the world as Colby College grows into a fine institution.
Beloved Colby historian Ernest Cummings Marriner '13 documents Robert E. Lee Strider's nineteen years as president of Colby College. Marriner is also the author of the definitive History of Colby, which covers the period up to the Strider presidency.
Since the death of Thomas Hardy in 1928, literary biographers and other avid Hardy readers have desired access to the huge cache of letters preserved by Hardy at his estate, Max Gate. In the absence of reliable information, inaccurate reports about the number and content of these letters have been circulated. With the publication of this volume, conjecture may cease. Hardcover. 238 pages.
A martyr of free speech and freedom of the press, Elijah Parish Lovejoy was Colby's valedictorian in 1826, As a minister, editor, and ardent abolitionist, Lovejoy swore his "eternal opposition to slavery." He was murdered by a pro-slavery mob in 1837 at the site of his abolitionist newspaper. Hardcover letterpress book.
On campus, Colby's Lovejoy building is named in his honor, and the hearthstone from his home in Albion, Maine by the flagpole on the center campus.