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George S. Lensing

1943– · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By George S. Lensing

Remarks at commencement exercises : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill : December 19, 2004

Lensing, George S., 1943- · 2004

George S. Lensing's remarks at the commencement exercises of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on December 19, 2004. The text runs ten leaves.

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Poetry, Senator McCarthy, and me

Lensing, George S., 1943- · 2006 · University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in the Humanities and Human Values

George S. Lensing, who taught English at Chapel Hill, gave the E. Maynard Adams Lecture on October 8, 2006, drawing together Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney and Senator Eugene McCarthy. The Program in the Humanities and Human Values printed it in twenty five pages with a portrait. Includes poetry.

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George Lensing papers, 1960-2017.

Lensing, George S., 1943- · 1960

George S. Lensing, born 1943, served on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His papers span 1960 to 2017 and come to approximately 400 items in half a linear foot, with photographs among the material, University Archives 40496. Subjects include the poet Wallace Stevens, university administration, and photographs of Bill Clinton connected with political campaigns in the United States.

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About George S. Lensing

[Three photos from Seamus Heaney's 1996 visit to the Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]

1996

Three color photographic prints, each about eleven by sixteen centimeters, made when the poet Seamus Heaney visited the Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library during the 1996 commencement at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The portraits include Thomas E. Douglass, George S. Lensing and Charles B. McNamara alongside Heaney in the portraits.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Lensing, George S., 1943-.

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