"Bring me light verse to liquidate my sorrow," Mr. Ewart wrote in his first collection, "Poems and Songs," published in 1939.

He wrote the 38 poems in his second - and last - collection, Stilt Jack, while in Toronto on a sabbatical.

He has written about it in his collection of essays The Cavalry Charges and has called it 'a genuine work of literature.

The French poet Guillaume Apollinaire wrote a rhyming version of the letter in his collection of poems Alcools (1913).

The roughly 30,000 rare and out-of-print books written by and about blacks in Ms. Clayton's collection have never been fully archived.

Gadfort idolizes the legendary hero Avalon, and has just about every book written on him in his personal collection.

As she wrote in her last collection: "I would feel them coming.

In Africa," Nancy Mairs writes in her new collection of essays, "people stare at oddities.

"My last things will be first things slipping from me," Seamus Heaney wrote in his great 1996 collection, "The Spirit Level."

In 1812 the Brothers Grimm wrote the version of the story most of us know today, in their first collection of fairy tales.