Ballads and Poetry Collection

Collection Overview

Title: Ballads and Poetry Collection

Extent: 2.0 Folders

Date Acquired: 07/26/2016

Languages: English [eng]

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This artificial collection was created to provide access to single ballads and poems that were purchased or donated as individual items and for which no documentation exists that would link them to a larger collection.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Source: Found in Collections.

Box and Folder Listing

Folder 1

Barcode: 31234013796485

Item 1: Ballad-[Owen's Confession], n.d.: A ballad supposedly written by William Owens and sung at his hanging. This version was written by someone who learned it as a child and he was 72 when he wrote it down. Two similar versions exist in Folk Songs of Middle Tennessee: The George Boswell Collection and The North Carolina Booklet: Great Events in North Carolina History, Vol. 11; however, this version is not the same as either.
Item 2: Poem-Sacred to the Memory of our dear Father F.J. Drucke, 1892: by Anna Drucke
Item 3: Poem-Salome Dances, 1925: Typed poem signed by Clarence Watt Heazlitt.
Item 4: Poem-Epitaph for a Sybarite, 1926: Typed poem signed by Clarence Watt Heazlitt.
Item 5: Poem-Demas at Thessalonica, 1926: Typed poem signed by Clarence Watt Heazlitt.
Item 6: Poem-Duncan and Mr. Lincoln, n.d.: Typed Poem signed by Paul Horan.
Item 7: Ballad-Nancy Till, n.d.

Folder 2

Barcode: 31234013796493

Item 1: Old Flame, n.d.: Poem printed as a poster signed by Robert Penn Warren.
Item 2: Rebuke of the Rocks, 1976: Poem printed as a poster signed by Robert Penn Warren.
Item 3: Horse Eventing, n.d.: Three poems by Lillie Chaffin printed on a poster.