Robert Loveman Papers

Collection

Identifier: MSS-0879

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Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of correspondence, 1884-1923, to and from a University of Alabama graduate, author, and poet.

Dates

Creation: 1884 - 1981

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Biographical/Historical note

Loveman (1864-1923) published numerous volumes of verse in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, among them Poems (Tuscaloosa, AL, Burton, 1893), A book of verses (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1900, The gates of silence with interludes of song (New York, Knickerbocker Press, 1903), Songs from a Georgia garden and echoes from the gates of silence (Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott, 1904), The blushful South and Hippocrene; being songs (Philadelphia and London, J.B. Lippincott, 1909), On the way to Willowdale, being other songs from a Georgia garden, with sonnet interludes (Dalton, GA, A.J. Showalter, 1912), and Sonnets of the strife with songs (Boston, Cornhill, 1917). For more information on Loveman’s work, see Helen Adele Friedman, Robert Loveman: Belated Romanticist (Tuscaloosa, AL, University of Alabama Press, 1932).