#  Robert Hillyer 

 



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Sort   ##  (1895-1961) 

 

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



    





  [*American National Biography* Online](http://www.anb.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/articles/16/16-00766.html) 





    





  [Harvard Square Library Biography](http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/cambridge-harvard/robert-hillyer/) 





    





  [The New York Times Obituary](http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9D02E1DF1F3DE733A25756C2A9649D946091D6CF&legacy=true) (December 25, 1961) 





  



 

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    **General Overview** 





    





  [HOLLIS Catalog Author Search: Robert Hillyer](http://lms01.harvard.edu/F/?func=find-c&CCL_TERM=WAN=(%22Hillyer,%20Robert,%201895-1961%22)&adjacent=1) 





    **Rare Materials** 





    





  [Finding Aid: Robert Hillyer Compositions](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou00281)   
Manuscripts and typescripts of various works by Hillyer, including*Riverhead*, 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John Donne and William Blake, published in 1941; chapters from an unfinished novel; and "A note to Granville Hicks," an unpublished poem replying to an attack on Hillyer by Hicks, published in the *New Republic* in 1937.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](http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/000604566/catalog%20)   
Includes correspondence, chapel talks, and letters from Hillyer's students. 





    **Digital Highlights** 





    





  [Googlebooks: *Alchemy: A Symphonic Poem* (Brentano's, 1920)](http://books.google.com/books?vid=HARVARD32044055019574&printsec=titlepage)   
Digitized from the Harvard Collection. 





    





  [Googlebooks: *Sonnets and Other Lyrics* (Harvard University Press, 1917)](http://books.google.com/books?vid=HARVARDHWXNZJ&printsec=titlepage)  
Digitized from the Harvard Collection.