Robert Hillyer

(1895-1961)


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

HARVARD COLLECTIONS

General Overview
Rare Materials
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John Donne and William Blake, published in 1941; chapters from an unfinished novel; and "A note to Granville Hicks," an unpublished poem replying to an attack on Hillyer by Hicks, published in the New Republic in 1937.
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.