Word: manuscript
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visible behind its glass casing in the first floor display room, is one of the few collections which can be seen by the public. The Keats collection, in a lavishly furnished, oak-paneled room on the second floor is another. It is the finest collection of "Keatsiana" anywhere. Including manuscript copies of three major poems Lamia, St. Agnes Eve, and Ode to Autumn, the collection contains two-thirds of the bulk of Keats' surviving manuscripts. About one-half of the collection was given to Harvard by Amy Lowell, along with many rare books from her own library; an addition, equal...
...Wolfe collection came to Harvard largely by chance. Shortly before World War II, Aline Bernstein, Wolfe's onetime mistress, the Mrs. Jack of the later novels, sold the manuscript of Look Homeward, Angel at a public auction, to raise funds for the relief of Jewish refugees (a bit of irony for Wolfe had an avowed tendency toward anti-Semitism.) The book was sold under the stipulation that it was to go to a university, and the buyer gave it to Houghton...
Daniel was traditionally performed in church to celebrate the New Year, but it is really a thinly disguised popular musical play. Its richly colored music was transcribed for the scholarly New York Pro Musica group (which first revived the play last year) from a 13th century manuscript unearthed in the British Museum. With costumes derived from medieval illustrations and dialogue in the original medieval Latin and French, the current production makes one concession to modern audiences in the form of a skillful English verse narration by Poet W. H. Auden that outlines the action...
Daniel unfolds in a series of carefully stylized joyous and pathetic sequences, superbly staged (in the chapel of the Intercession of Trinity Parish in Manhattan) to give the effect of scenes from an illuminated manuscript. The action is accompanied by music suggestive of everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, played on reproductions of such authentic medieval instruments as a psaltery, a rebec, a minstrel's harp...
This vision is clearly shared by British Novelist John (The Widow's Tale, Time for Tea) Coates, who has abandoned his own work to bring to light an old, unfinished manuscript of Dear Jane...