Ernest W. Nelson papers, 1899-1921

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Series II: Notebooks, circa 1910-1921



Box 2 Notebook, [circa 1910-1912]

Berlioz, Gounod and Liszt; Leconte de Lisle; Carducci or Swinburne. "The individual," Millet's drawings, The angel with the flaming sword ("Of Heaven"), Prelude to the "Lyric years," "Morning vision," "Marconi," "Hexameters,""To a Puritan." Illustrations.


Box 2 Notebook, 1915 October - 1917 October

On Stagnelius, William Watson, J.A. Symons; poetic style, composition in art, modern translation; "inscription in Paphos," "Man has been too generous to his Gods," "The speculators," "1917." "A drama of modern love," "Notes on Osiris for the sonnet called The speculators," "The sonnet, " "War and poetry,""The governors - 1917." Illustrations.


Box 2 Notebook, 1917 May-June

"The triumph of anarchy," by Samuel Loveman. Illustrations.


Box 2 Notebook, 1918

On bronze and flesh; "Cecilia." Illustrations.


Box 2 Notebook, 1918 January-February

On reading poetry, Dithyrambic, Women in poetry; "Poetry," Introduction for a Essay on women; Letter to Poetry, letter to the Plain Dealer.


Box 2 Notebook, 1918 March-August

Arthur Henderson, Ezra Pound, Stagnelius; Spiritual ecstasy, "Ode to a cocktail," "O lilac-season," "Economic ode;" On advertising, Horace.


Box 2 Notebook, 1918 July-December

Amy Lowell, Harriet Monroe; Ethical relations of men and women, Puritans, World War I, Prostitution; Letter to the New Republic. Illustrations.



Box 3 Notebook, 1918 August

On Gounod, Charles Ferguson; On democracy, love; "To Gladys," To his mother, Sonnet (written in 1899> copied 1918), The new death. Illustrations.


Box 3 Notebook, 1918 November-December

On Katherine Lee Bates; Letter to H.M.


Box 3 Notebook, 1918-1919 September

Flaxman, Amy Lowell; Masefield Sonnet; Rhythm, revolution by due process of law, World War I, painting and sculpture; Criticism of article in the Nation; Letter to editors of the Nation; "Parents and child," "Meditation of an exile." Illustration.


Box 3 Notebook, 1919 September-1920 January

Flaxman, Blake; On marriage, genius from aristocracy?, education, Christianity and pagans, British railway strikes, truth and the majority, "The liberty spree," "Plato."


Box 3 Notebook, 1920-1921 March

Schopenhauer, Swinburne; Hellenic studies, substitutes for Christianity, Mechanism of the human brain; Letter to Rev. Mr. Scotford; "An Easter song," "Liebkneckt" (draft). Illustrations.


Box 3 Notebook, 1920 February-September

Moonlight, On portraiture, his mother-in-law, Over the color-lines, business trade - the circulation of civilization; Letter to editor of the Plain Dealer, Letter to editor of the Freeman. Americanization. Illustrations.


Box 3 Notebook, 1920 May-June

Swinburne; On Americans, women, art exhibition, the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Prize. Illustrations.


Box 3 Notebook, 1920 November-1921 June

Swinburne, Kno Lsu; On Harding's election, liberty, electron- atom, evolution, rhythm, creation and liberty; Letter to Hart Crane; "Of last day scenes..."


Box 3 Notebook, 1920 December-1921 February

Flaxman; "Sonnet." Illustration.