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Calliope's Comments, vol. 12 (1976 Feb)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- Short Term, 1976
- Here is a personal letter to you O homefolks from Annie
- Grapheon
- We All Die At Least Once
- Literary festival, 1976
- Annotated book recommendations
- Cargoes places in top third
- Special commencement awards, May 1975
- Publications by former students
- Campus Concerns
- Writer in Residence for Spring, 1976
- Readings: Past and future
- Gone but not forgotten
- Notes on English Alum Careers
- For Faye
- Faculty Round Table
- Rogue's Gallery 1975-76
- English Majors 1975-76
- For Faye: A lament and celebration
- The Hollins critic
Calliope's Comments, vol. 11 (1975 Jan 21)

John Cunningham

Table of Contents:
- By any measurements
- Richard's Metamorphoses
- Campus Concerns
- Fifteenth Annual Literary Festival
- Grapheon
- Annotated Book Recommendations
- The Bard Observed
- Writer in Residence for Fall, 1975
- Gradstudpublist
- And this year's graduate students
- Special Commencement Awards, May 1974
- The Hollins critic
- Gone but not forgotten
- Campus Publications
- Faculty round table
- Flash
- Impressions
- English Majors 1974-75
Calliope's Comments, vol. 10 (1974 Jan 30)

John Rees Moore

Table of Contents:
- Yesterday
- Campus concerns
- Gone but not forgotten
- Special: Honors and awards and new books
- Faculty round table
- Annie Dillard comes to town
- The Motif of the Journey: Quests for Identity and Reality or Straight Lines to Nowhere
- Politics, society, and literature
- Annotated book recommendations
- A celebration for Eudora Welty
- Literary festival 1974
- Frank O'Brien
- Grapheon
- Step up to higher pay
- Commencement 1973 Awards and Honors
- The Hollins critic
- Cargoes--A report
- A note from the assistant to the editor
- For Julia Randall
Calliope's Comments, vol. 10 (1973 Jan 30)

John Rees Moore

Table of Contents:
- Here it is the all-too-short term
- Campus Concerns
- Gone But Not Forgotten
- News--And a Real Live Student--From U.E.A
- Poets in the Schools
- Children Writing Poems
- Annotated Book Recommendations
- Knock Knock: Who Dat?
- Faculty Round Table
- Unaccommodated Man
- The new Graduate Students
- The Year of Dada
- Student Honors, Awards, Prizes, Successes
- English Majors, 1972-1973
- 1972 Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest
- "What am I Doing Here in Africa?"
- Notes on Some Faculty and Friends
- Campus Publications - And What You Can Do To Help
- Au Revoir But Not Good-Bye
- Calliope will come to you
- Late News Flash
Calliope's Comments, vol. 7, no. 1 & 2 (1971 May 20)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- In case you were wondering
- Final (??) Writer-in-Residence Blazes Brightly
- Literary Festival
- On Days Like This
- Reports From members of the Eng. Dept
- A Lack of Wild Geese
- News Note and Thank You
- Some News of Students Past and Present
- Dr. Enid Starkie
- Joining us in September will be
- Books Recommended by members of the department
- Seniors have been receiving The Hollins Critic
- As for English Majors
- Flash!
- The Customs-House
- Literary Visitors on Campus
- Short but Sweet
- Editor's Notes
Calliope's Comments, vol. 8, no. 1 (1971 Dec)

John Rees Moore

Table of Contents:
- With the face of Zeus
- Campus Concerns: Broadening the Hollins Experience
- Some News of Present and Past Majors
- The Enid Starkie Collection
- Books Recommended By Members of the Department
- Some News on Department Notables
- Some Publication Notes on Faculty and Friends
- R.H.W. Dillard, newly appointed
- Some News of Former Graduate Students (M.A.'s)
- Folding Hands
- English 350: Film as Narrative Art
- The Hollins Critic
- Shrubs
Calliope's Comments, vol. 6, no. 2 (1970 May)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- Movie Producers, Critics to Join
- Kay Boyle is Coming
- From Yeats to Kahlil Gibran
- What Are The Illustrious Critics Saying!
- A Master's Lessons on the Masters
- In view of the season, Calliope presents
- Winner's Circle
- Ye Merrie Maenads
- Honors Bright
- Independence & Flexibility
- Pierian Scuttlebutt: Authentic Reports by Sundry members of the Eng. dept.
- Notes on Former Faculty, Graduates, Friends
- The Recommended Bookshelf
- And now, as the pigeons
Calliope's Comments, vol. 5, no. 2 (1969 May 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- Flowers
- Vive Irish Culture, Vive O'Brien!
- Itinerant Nest of Singing Birds
- You Can't Tell the Poets without a Program
- Amanda Cockrell
- The Children of the Dream
- Who was that poet (novelist) I seen you with last night?
- With the Beginning of the Short Term
- The Blue Estuaries
- February 5
- While Mr. Hope was with us
- Critically Speaking, Do You Subscribe to This?
- Lazy, Not So Crazy Days of Summer School
- Speaking of the Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest
- Symposium Has Never Had It Quite So Good
- Operation Bootstrap Soars Aloft
- Hollins Abroad in Fensville and the Emerald Isle
- Something Old, Something New in Julia Sawyer's 252
- The Letters of Our Native Land Expand
- And While We're On The Subject
- Note the Poppy or the Lily in her Med-I-Eval Hand
- So What's New in Bradley Hall?
- Andrew Purdy
- Julia Randall Sawyer
- George Garrett
- Richard H.W. Dillard
- John R. Moore
- Josephine Allen
- John A. Allen
- What No Major List?
- Kenyon is Alumnae Gift to Seniors
- Jerry Brown
- Two Jacks and a Jill
- Whither Away?
- Your Epistolary Bookshelf
Calliope's Comments, vol. 6, no. 1 (1969 Nov 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- Autumn is a Time for Dreaming, is it Not?
- A Further Wreath for George Garrett
- Rubin's Bib. A Boon to Southern lit
- Mostly the Old Familiar Faces
- East Anglia at Hollins
- One Good Term Deserves Another
- Faye's Back
- Lucky Thirteen: Graduate Students From All Over
- Hollins Writers Big In Bantam Book
- Itinerant (And Domestic) Bards, Scholars, Spinners of Yarns
- Barnstorming Bards on the Go Again
- Bright Particular Stars
- Threat for Seniors, Courtesy of Janney Fund
- Hollins Critic
- As the Academic Year Swings into High Gear
- A Virgin Dead
- Quirky, Irascible, Humorous, Speculative, Melancholy
- Medieval Miscellany
- To the King's English, Gentlemen
- Flicks Infiltrate Curriculum
- What Do You Hear from 'em?
- This Happy Breed: A Googly Crop of Majors
- A Look at Books
- Bradley Beat: Mini-Memoirs of the English Faculty
- Strike Slow For U.S. Culture At No Cost To Yourself
- Fare Thee Well
Calliope's Comments, vol. 6, no. 1.5 (1969 June 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- So You Thought You'd Seen Everything!
- A Synoptic View of the Sounder Few
- The Name Sounds Familiar
- The Rest is Silence
Calliope's Comments, vol. 4, no. 2 (1968 May 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- Shelby Foote on the Quad
- Promotions and Appointments, 1968-1969
- Two Hits, No Errors for Sawyer
- O'Brien Off to Ireland on Award
- Zeldin Has Big Year on Russian Front
- New Faces
- Writers-in-Transit and In Residence
- Notes on Ex-Faculty, Ex-Writers-in-Residence, and Friends of the College
- The Hollins Critic
- Graduate Program
- American Studies
- New Courses in English Curriculum
- History of the English Language
- How Go Hollins' Two New Majors? Coming Along Nicely, Thanks
- Tea-pot Symposium
- Magi: The Journey Back
- Nancy Thorp Contest Winners
- Department of English Abroad
- What are our Graduates At?
- Behold, the First Fruits
- English Majors
- What this Year's Graduates Are Up To...
- A New Departure
- News Flash
- A Hollins medal
Calliope's Comments, vol. 5, no. 1 (1968 Nov 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- The new academic year
- A Zeldin's-worth of Gogol
- Allen Taken in Hand by Golden Quill
- Dillard and Rubin in Tandem on America
- And (more distantly in view)
- Behemoth Raised by George P. Garrett in Captivity
- Getting the Best of the Critic
- Irish Literature: A Purblind Peek
- Grads and Undergrads make National Scene
- Also Newly Available in Paperback
- The Renaissance in Bradley Hall
- Make Big Money At Home in Your Spare Time
- Speaking of Pub's
- English Majors Also Reaped Their Share of Honors
- Marley Lott, President of Grapheon Literary Society
- As a Gift From Alumnae in Honor of Dr. Francis Lamar Janney
- A Vigil for the King
- The Scoop on Garrett's Graduate Group
- The Thing About Majors
- Eastward Ho!
- Star Trek: Literary Visitors on Campus
- See America First, By Paperback and Lecture
- Build Thee More Stately Mansions
- Women to Study Images of Man
- Medieval and Linguistic Studies, Front and Forward
- Straight from the Hoss's Mouth
- Song of the Open Road Dept. (What are they doing now?)
- Alas, Royal Stuart, we have known him well
- The Anatomy of Stuart H.L. Degginger
- X Writers-in-Residence
- X Graduate Students
- X English Majors
- Reading For Fun and Profit
- And So We Leave You, Until
Calliope's Comments, vol. 4, no. 1 (1967 Nov 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- The Hollins Poets
- Muse Assists Celebration
- An Honor for LDR
- George Garrett Strikes Again
- New Faces (And Familiar Ones, Come Home to Roost)
- A Bumper Crop of Graduate Students
- Lo! The mountains Come into Mohammed
- The New Curriculum
- English Majors Bring in the Honors
- Many Majors
- Profitable Prophets
- Poetry Still Popping
- March for Freedom
- Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
- On Other Word Before We Part
Calliope's Comments, vo. 3, no. 3 (1967 May 15)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- Professor John Alexander Allen
- George Palmer Garrett
- Serving as Acting Director
- Finalist in the National
- What with the Messrs. Garrett and Smith
- Associate Professor Jesse Zeldin
- Malcolm Cowley and Shelby Foote
- The New Majors
- Southern Writing in the Sixties Poetry
- The New Editors
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Everyone at Hollins
- All the Reports
- The Science Building
- Excerpt from Alma B's Last Memoirs or I'm Sorry I Promised You a Rose Garden
- The Hollins Symposium
- Two Hollins Sophomores
- There Were Irishmen
- As Usual, We Asked the Department
- For the third year in a row
- His Dissertation Completed
- What Are They Doing?
- The Fourth Annual Nancy Thorp Poetry
- The Hollins Critic
- Grapheon
- English 250: The Short Poem: A Course Description
- Elizabeth Hopkins
- Southeastern Newspapers
- Want Ad
- Visitors from all over
- The Mind Parasites
- Speaking of the Wilsons
- Howard Nemerov
- Gulls over Memphis
- As an Aftermath
- Finally, a personal note
- Late News Flash
Calliope's Comments, vol. 2, no. 4 (1966 May 20)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- Calliope's Comments
- Alumnae College
- The New Majors
- John Cajetan Garruto
- Colin Wilson
- Mrs. Allen
- Papers on Proust
- Phi Beta Kappa
- The Day I Stopped Dreaming About Barbara Steele and Other Poems
- Janney Fund
- Associate Professor Stuart H. L. Degginger
- Fellowship
- Margaret Ferguson
- Irish Scholars
- English 305: Literary Criticism--A Course Description
- Editing Cargoes
- Sylvia Wilkinson
- Paperbacks
- Mr. Smith
- Spoon River
- The Critic
- See No Evil
- Literary Festival
- Howard Nemerov
- Summer Plans
- Murder and Create
- Graduate Students
Calliope's Comments, vol. 3, no. 1 (1966 Nov 1)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- Barbara Steele
- The 1966-1967 Majors
- Sylvia Wilkinson
- Visitors
- Graduate Students
- Colin Wilson
- Mrs. Allen
- Phi Beta Kappa
- Course Description: English 451 - The Detective Story as Serious Literary Form
- Paducah to New Orleans
- Fellowship
- Next Year's Writers
- Stuart Degginger
- Report on Hong Kong
- Black Raincoat
- Summer in England
- Alumnae College
- Graduate School
- Nancy Thorp Contest
- Janney Fund
- Staff Activities
- My Brother Used to Play
- Conrad Aiken
- Rubin
- Irish
- Dillard
- Southern Writing
- Some Books You Might Enjoy Reading, As Recommended by the Faculty
Calliope's Comments, vol. 2, no. 2 (1965 May 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- The English Department
- A great plenty of literary events
- Accolades for English Majors
- Florida Express
- We Now Come to the Travels, Triumphs, and Traumas
- Independent Study
- It is Spring and the Advising Season is in Full Cry
- "What are They Doing?"
- Now, as the sun sinks
Calliope's Comments, vol. 2, no. 3 (1965 Dec 1)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- Frances Lamar Janney
- Assistant Chairman
- Recuperating
- The English Majors
- Mr. Smith Comes to Hollins
- New Staff Members
- Philip Cooper, Jr.
- Frank O'Brien
- John Ellington White
- Honors
- Editors
- Graduate Students
- Now, as to what the Staff is Doing
- Associate Professor John A. Allen
- Philip Cooper
- Richard H. W. Dillard
- John Rees Moore
- Frank P. O'Brien
- Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
- J. Sawyer
- Ellington White
- Independent Study
- Alumnae College
- Ex-Writers in Residence
- The Girl in the Black Raincoat
- William Butler Yeats
- Moore
- Home Thoughts From Zeldin Abroad
- New Course In Department
- Speaking of Which
- Randall Jarrell
- The class of 1965
- Model
- The Puritan Carpenter
- Want Ad
- Hamilton Scholarship
- The Hollins Critic
- Editorial Assistants
- In California
- Miss Gentry
- Recent Publications
- Books of Interest
- Literary Criticism
- The Short Poem
- Advanced Grammar
- Writing of Poetry
- Victorian Literature
- Romantic Poetry
- Modern Irish literatyre
- Shakespeare
- American Literature
- The Modern Novel
- So Much, Then
Calliope's Comments, vol. 2, no. 1 (1964 Nov 1)

John Alexander Allen

Table of Contents:
- Conspicuous
- The First Hollins College English Conference
- English Department Speakers
- Three New Persons
- College Journalism
- Nancy Thorp Memorial Prizes
- What They Are Doing
- This year's graduate students
- Here Follows A Poem by Margaret Ferguson
- In Addition to Miss Ferguson
- The staff of the
- The English Department is still
- English 326: Romantic Poetry
- Independent Study
- Departures
- English Department Alumnae
- We wish to
Calliope's Comments, vol. 1, no. 4 (1964 May 20)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- Benedict Kiely
- New majors
- Acting Chairman
- Jesse Zeldin
- On sabbatical leave
- New staff members
- New courses
- Hollins critic
- Miss Long
- Return of Katie
- Poetic Renaissance
- Saxton Fellowship
- Loraine Reed
- Studies in the Modern Novel: First term, a course description
- Visitors
- Literary festival
- Interviews
- Summer plans
- The Albino Robin
- Student editors
- Grapheon fellows
- Changing South
- May Day
- The Tinker press
- It's now exactly
- Beanstalks
- Symposium
Calliope's Comments, vol 1, no. 2 (1963 May 20)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- Much honored man
- Promotion
- Something new
- 'Unofficial honors'
- New courses
- The new majors
- Two away, one returning
- Again a big turnout
- Early summer
- Introductory Creative Writing: a course description
- What the staff is doing
- Publications
- Phi Beta Kappa
- One way to do it
- Hollins-in-Sewanee
- Editors
- Bird and Bear
- Grapheon
- Librettist
- Miscellaneous
Calliope's Comments, vol. 1, no. 3 (1963 Nov 1)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- The Hollins critic
- The English majors
- Graduate students
- Writers-in-residence
- Awards and prizes
- Atlanta
- Overture and Beginners! A Description of English 335: Irish Literature
- Esquire
- New man
- What the staff is doing
- Nancy Thorp Prize
- Doctor Wood
- Who's teaching what
- Flannery O'Connor
- Early summer
- Gentry
- Who's here
- New book
- Publishing
- Confederate Cemetery
- Dr. Janney
- Master of arts
- Offprints
Calliope's Comments, vol. 1, no. 1 (1962 Oct 20)

Louis D. Rubin Jr.

Table of Contents:
- For many years
- First of all
- Next, who are they current English majors? They are
- Our graduate program
- One new feature
- Independent study
- Howard Nemerov
- William Golding
- John W. Aldridge
- To have a novel accepted
- Activities of the English faculty
- 1962 English majors
- A full program
- Phi Beta Kappa
- English majors past and present
- A curriculum committee
- Russian and Soviet Literature: a course description
- Nancy Thorp Prize
- We thought it would be appropriate
- Good Night
- Do you want to receive
- What are you doing?