An elegy for honor : poem

Collection

Identifier: MSS 0099-F0878

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

This one-page typescript of Hildegarde Flanner's poem, "An Elegy For Honor," is signed by the author.

The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, which holds the Hildegarde Flanner papers, lists this poem as written in 1973.

This typescript was originally laid in a copy of Flanner's book of poetry, In Native Light (1970). The book was inscribed to Malcolm Cowley by both Flanner and her husband, Frederick Monhoff, who illustrated the book.

Dates

Creation: [1973]

Creator

Flanner, Hildegarde, 1899-1987 (Person)

Language of Materials

Materials entirely in English.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, http://library.udel.edu/spec/askspec/

Hildegarde Flanner (1899-1987)

Hildegarde Flanner, the pseudonym of June Hildegarde Flanner Monhoff, wrote poems, essays, and one-act plays.

Flanner was born June 3, 1899, in Indianapolis, Indiana, but spent most of her life in California, to which she moved in the 1920s, and where she died on May 27, 1987. An early advocate of feminism and environmentalism, Flanner's writings explored nature and the human impact on it, as well as what it meant to be a woman in twentieth-century America.

"Hildegarde Flanner." Contemporary Authors Online. Gale Biography In Context. http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/bic1 (accessed March 4, 2011).