Named for literary critic and poet George Edward Woodberry,[1] the Woodberry Poetry Room was founded in 1931 with the help of a $50,000 donation from Harvard alumnus Harry Harkness Flagler.[2] The collection focuses on 20th and 21st century English language poets and poetry. Among its notable holdings are recordings of authors and poets reading their own works.
^Harry Levin, "Comparative Literature at Harvard". From Building a Profession: Autobiographical Perspectives on the Beginnings of Comparative Literature in the United States. Lionel Gorssman and Mihai I. Spariosu (editors). Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994: 14. ISBN0-7914-1800-6
^"Important Gift for Poetry", Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Volume 33, Issue 22 (1931): 667.
^ abZecher, Henry. William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes. Bloomington, IN: XLibris, 2011: 553. ISBN978-14535-5582-8
^Bethell, John T., Richard M. Hunt, and Robert Shenton. Harvard A to Z. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004: 236. ISBN0-674-01288-7s
^"Scholars Examine Harvard's Rich Poetic Tradition". Harvard Crimson. February 15, 2007. Retrieved October 21, 2014.
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