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STEVENS, Wallace. Autograph letter signed ("W. Stevens") to J.E. Spingarn, Cambridge, Mass., 9 April 1900. 2 pages, 8vo, letterhead of the Harvard Advocate.
A VERY EARLY LETTER FROM STEVENS'S STUDENT DAYS AT HARVARD. "I have found a copy of the 'Sonnet for the Centenary of Keats' and which appeared in Vol. 60 of the Advocate (1895-96) No. 7 p. 102, and was signed J.E.S. I am unable to send you the number in which it appeared but have copied it on inside page. Sincerely yours, W. Stevens, Pres." On the inner folded sheet, Stevens has copied the sonnet in its entirety. Stevens was just 21 at the time of this letter, and still a student at Harvard.
The recipient is presumably Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), American educator and literary critic. A graduate of Columbia, he was professor of comparative literature there from 1899-1911 and was later (1919) a founder of the publishing firm of Harcourt, Brace and Company. His literary work includes A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (1899), Creative Criticism and Other Essays (1931), and several books of poems. A prominent officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1913 until his death, he established the Spingarn medal, awarded annually for outstanding achievement by an African American.
A VERY EARLY LETTER FROM STEVENS'S STUDENT DAYS AT HARVARD. "I have found a copy of the 'Sonnet for the Centenary of Keats' and which appeared in Vol. 60 of the Advocate (1895-96) No. 7 p. 102, and was signed J.E.S. I am unable to send you the number in which it appeared but have copied it on inside page. Sincerely yours, W. Stevens, Pres." On the inner folded sheet, Stevens has copied the sonnet in its entirety. Stevens was just 21 at the time of this letter, and still a student at Harvard.
The recipient is presumably Joel Elias Spingarn (1875-1939), American educator and literary critic. A graduate of Columbia, he was professor of comparative literature there from 1899-1911 and was later (1919) a founder of the publishing firm of Harcourt, Brace and Company. His literary work includes A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance (1899), Creative Criticism and Other Essays (1931), and several books of poems. A prominent officer of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1913 until his death, he established the Spingarn medal, awarded annually for outstanding achievement by an African American.