October 6, 2020 – John Holmes

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Dublin Core

Title

October 6, 2020 – John Holmes

Subject

Tufts University. Tisch Library. Special Collections

Description

Tufts poet, professor, & critic John Holmes (1904-1962) was friend, teacher, and mentor to many fellow poets. Anne Sexton and John Ciardi A’38 were among his students in writers’ workshops and Tufts’s classes. After his death, his wife, poet, memoirist, and Wellesley dean & lecturer Doris Holmes Eyges (1921-2016) donated Professor Holmes’s large poetry collection to the Tufts library. Many volumes, by intention, are in the circulating collection. Presentation copies, gifts such as these, from Ciardi and Robert Frost, are important parts of Tisch Special Collections. Holmes’s papers are held in Digital Collections & Archives, which hosts an online exhibit dedicated to the first Tufts Poet.

Creator

Christopher Barbour

Source

Instagram: @Tischlibrary

Publisher

Tufts University. Tisch Library

Date

October 6, 2020

Contributor

Anna Minasyan

Format

image/jpg

Language

eng

Type

image

Coverage

2020
20th Century

Citation

Christopher Barbour, “October 6, 2020 – John Holmes,” Tufts Libraries Omeka, accessed November 21, 2024, https://omeka.library.tufts.edu/items/show/5298.