Maryland - Poet Laureates
Topic
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Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Vincent Godfrey Burns papers
Collection
0017-LIT
Abstract
Vincent Godfrey Burns, born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1893, was Poet Laureate of Maryland from 1962 until his death in 1979. He was ordained as a minister and later published poems, television scripts, plays, and a novel, often expressing his conservative political and religious convictions. He and his brother Robert collaborated on I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang, which was made into a movie in 1932. Burns's papers include correspondence, poems,...
Dates:
1939-1970; Majority of material found within 1964-1970