{"id":3503,"date":"2010-05-06T13:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=3503"},"modified":"2010-05-06T13:30:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-06T18:30:34","slug":"armstrong-browning-library-celebrates-annual-festival-with-newly-found-manuscript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/05\/armstrong-browning-library-celebrates-annual-festival-with-newly-found-manuscript\/","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong Browning Library celebrates annual festival with newly found manuscript"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Armstrong<\/p>\n

Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library<\/a> isn’t just a great place for students to study during finals; yearround, it stands as a 60-year-old monument to Baylor’s dedication to both outstanding teaching in the classroom and top-tier academic research<\/a>. The library’s name sums up its history, recognizing one of Baylor’s most beloved professors, Dr. A. J. Armstrong<\/a>, and the library’s purpose as the world’s largest collection of books, letters, manuscripts, and memorabilia pertaining to poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, of course, is most known for her Sonnet 43 from Sonnets from the Portuguese<\/em>, which begins, “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”<\/a> Baylor researchers were pleased to discover recently a notebook written by Elizabeth and containing the earliest known draft manuscript of Sonnet Five<\/a> from that same collection. Skillfully deciphering the 170-year-old handwriting, ABL Director Rita Patteson found in the notebook numerous works in draft form, including three previously unpublished poems.<\/p>\n

Today through Saturday, the library is hosting its annual Browning Festival<\/a>, held each year around the anniversary of Robert Browning’s birth. The highlight of this year’s event is an address by Dr. Scott Lewis, president of London’s Browning Society<\/a>. Lewis is working on a biography of Armstrong and will speak about the former Baylor professor’s life and research. The library (both the building<\/a> and its contents<\/a>) as well as the festival are some of the jewels of Baylor’s campus!<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Browning researchers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baylor’s Armstrong Browning Library isn’t just a great place for students to study during finals; yearround, it stands as a 60-year-old monument to Baylor’s dedication to both outstanding teaching in the classroom and top-tier academic research. The library’s name sums up its history, recognizing one of Baylor’s most beloved professors, Dr. A. J. Armstrong, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-baylor-2012","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}