Robert Hillyer

(1895-1961)

Attended Harvard (A.B. 1917)
Taught at Harvard (1919-1945)

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

 Harvard ID required American National Biography Online
  Harvard Square Library Biography
 Harvard ID required The New York Times Obituary (December 25, 1961)

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
HOLLIS Catalog link HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Robert Hillyer
Rare Materials
OASIS finding aid link Finding Aid: Robert Hillyer Compositions 
Manuscripts and typescripts of various works by Hillyer, includingRiverhead, a novel published in 1932; My Heart for Hostage, a novel published in 1942; introduction to an edition of the poetry of John Donne and William Blake, published in 1941; chapters from an unfinished novel; and "A note to Granville Hicks," an unpublished poem replying to an attack on Hillyer by Hicks, published in the New Republic in 1937.
HOLLIS Catalog link Robert Hillyer Papers, 1940-45 
Includes correspondence, chapel talks, and letters from Hillyer's students.
Digital Highlights
  Googlebooks: Alchemy: A Symphonic Poem (Brentano's, 1920) 
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.
  Googlebooks: Sonnets and Other Lyrics (Harvard University Press, 1917)
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.