{"id":891,"date":"2019-05-10T22:54:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T17:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/info\/?page_id=891"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:35:15","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/index\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whitman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whitman.jpg\" alt=\"Walt Whitman\" class=\"wp-image-894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whitman.jpg 173w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whitman-100x161.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/whitman-150x241.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Illustration: Walt Whitman; frontispiece to <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em> (Brooklyn, 1855)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is located in the <a class=\"main\" href=\"..\/..\/about\/hay\/\">John Hay Library<\/a>. It is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day. It is perhaps the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in any research library. The works of most well-known (and many thousands of little-known) American and Canadian poets and playwrights, from the 18th century to the present day, are held comprehensively. There are significant holdings of early American literature, hymnals, songsters, little magazines, contemporary fine printing, extensive collections on Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe, women&#8217;s writings, gay and lesbian literature, modern first editions, Yiddish-American literature, and French-Canadian literature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other Harris Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/index\/\">Back to the main page<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/history\/\">Harris Collection history<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/research\/\">Research Guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/internet-resources\/\">Internet Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Collection is fully cataloged, with records available in <a href=\"https:\/\/search.library.brown.edu\/\">Josiah<\/a>, the Library&#8217;s online catalog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For information about the collection contact <a class=\"main\" href=\"mailto:hay@brown.edu\">hay@brown.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/history\/\"><strong>Harris Collection history<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/research\/\"><strong>Research Guide to the Harris Collection<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/internet-resources\/\"><strong>Related Internet Resources<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u00bb <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/collections\/index.php\">Return to Library Collections<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays is located in the John Hay Library. It is composed of approximately 250,000 volumes of American and Canadian poetry, plays, and vocal music dating from 1609 to the present day. It is perhaps the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in any research library. The <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/collections\/harris\/index\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":889,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full-width-no-menu.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-891","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11274,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/891\/revisions\/11274"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}