Great Poets & Writers Are Focus of Wynn Collection Display at U of M Library
For release: July 20, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

During July and August, the Ned R. McWherter Library at the University of Memphis is displaying material from the Lawrence and Sarah J. Wynn Collection of Romantic and Victorian Literature. The initial focus is on work by and about the great Romantic poets Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. There is no charge to view the display, which is located on the library's second floor.

The 5,000-volume collection was acquired during Dr. Lawrence Wynn's tenure at the U of M and has been dedicated to the University Libraries. Wynn, who died in 1995, was an admired member of the U of M's English Department faculty from 1950 to 1981. He received the University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1981 and was the first recipient of the W. Russell Smith Award for Teaching Excellence. For many years he served as coordinator of graduate studies for the English Department.

Sarah Wynn was a noted pianist and piano teacher. She is the author of The Emergence of The Music Critic in Late 18th Century London: Composers, Performers, Reporters. Like her late husband, she is an ardent lover of literature and libraries.

For more information on this exhibit, call Tom Mendina at 678-4310.

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