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1879–1955 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
3 indexed works are connected with this person.
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Records of 'Contempo, a review of books and personalities', the Chapel Hill literary magazine, covering 1930 to 1934, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4408. Milton Abernethy and Tony Buttitta are among the people covered, along with writers the magazine dealt with: William Faulkner, Langston Hughes, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, E. E. Cummings and H. L. Mencken.
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.
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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