Dr. Robert Goard's Rose Poetry Collection, 2004/2007

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Richmond
Rare Books and Special Collections
Boatwright Library
University of Richmond
28 Westhampton Way
Richmond, VA 23173
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Lynda Kachurek
Phone: (804) 289-8458
Fax: (804) 287-1840
Terms of access:

Copyright restrictions may apply. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.

Preferred citation:

[Box Number, Folder Number], MS-27, Dr. Robert Goard's Rose Poetry Collection, Book Arts, Archives, & Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
1.3 Linear Feet Four Boxes
Creator:
Goard, Robert R., Dr.
Abstract:
The collection includes more than 1500 poems from the 12th to the 20th century, all on the subject of roses. The poems are printed on individual pages, some photocopies, some handwritten. There is one hand bound book, photocopied from an 1885 edition of Ros Rosarum by E. V. Boyle.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Box Number, Folder Number], MS-27, Dr. Robert Goard's Rose Poetry Collection, Book Arts, Archives, & Rare Books, Boatwright Memorial Library, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection includes more than 1500 poems from the 12th to the 20th century, all on the subject of roses. The poems are printed on individual pages, some photocopies, some handwritten. They are in four archival boxes with ring binders.

Series I, American Poems, is focused on rose poems by American authors.

Series II, English Poems, features rose poems written by English authors and is subdivided into centuries.

Series III, International Poems, contains materials by authors from countries other than the United States and/or England. The series is subdivided by country or time period, as identified by Dr. Goard.

Series IV, Indices and Other Materials, contains Dr. Goard's index to the collection as well as materials not directly related to rose poetry by collected by Dr. Goard.

Series V, Ros Rosarum, contains one hand bound book, photocopied from an 1885 edition of Ros Rosarum by E. V. Boyle.

Biographical / historical:

Robert R. Goard was born in Dry Fork, Virginia on April 21, 1933, the youngest of seven children. He graduated from Whitmell Farm-Life High School in 1950. After serving four years in the Navy as a radar man, he attended the University of Richmond on the GI Bill, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in French (1961). He was awarded the coveted Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship for Graduate Study (Honorary) and the National Defense Education Act Fellowship for three years of graduate study in modern French literature at the University of Wisconsin, where earned an MA and PhD.

From Wisconsin, he joined the Faculty of the Romance Languages Department of Ohio Wesleyan University, where he taught undergraduate courses in French language and literature. After about 10 years, he got a Master of Library Science degree from Kent State University and held several positions at Battelle Memorial Institute, and later corporate librarian at the firm of Burgess and Nipple, Inc., Engineers and Architects.

After retirement in 2007, he returned to Richmond, Virginia where he worked part time at the Richmond Public Library. He died on June 24, 2011.

Processing information:

The materials were transferred from binders into archival sleeves and boxes for preservation but maintained Dr. Goard's original descriptive order.

Processed by Betty Dickie.

Arrangement:

This collection is arranged in 5 series contained in four archival binder boxes:

Series I: Volume 1: American Poems

Physical facet:
Individually sleeved

Indexed terms

Subjects:
Nonbook Materials
Poetry
Roses
Names:
Goard, Robert R., Dr.