Notebook 17: Tenebrae

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Burgundy hardback notebook with University of Leeds crest. Labelled in ms on inside front cover 'Notebooks 1970 - [continued February 1974] finished 28/12/74'.The notebook contains ms poem drafts and workings, and pasted-in typescript drafts towards poems published in 'Tenebrae'. Includes:

- A paraphrase of the Quevedo sonnet Dr Bull's Jewell [not collected in Tenebrae]

- Ave Regina Coelorum (Two Chorale-Preludes on Melodies by Paul Celan)

- The Masque of Blackness (Lachrimae 2)

- Quaint Mazes (An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 1)

- Loss and Gain (An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 7)

- Reges de Saba Venient (i.e. Terribilis est Locus Iste)

- (after Giordano Bruno) [not collected in Tenebrae]

- Lachrimae Verae (Lachrimae 1)

- Martyrium (Lachrimae 3)

- Pavana Dolorosa (Lachrimae5)

- Lachrimae Antiquae Novae (Lachrimae 6)

- Idylls of the King (An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England 11). The notebook also contains Hill's ms notes on subjects including the Winchester Bible, the history of keyboard music, contemplation and meditaion, Simone Weil, Heloise and Abelard, T.S. Eliot, Yeats, tradition, Donne, Herman Melville, Gauguin and poetry. There is also an ms transcription from St John of the Cross's 'The Spiritual Canticle'. Towards the back of the notebook, Hill's notes include evidence of planning his collected volume, 'Somewhere is Such a Kingdom', published in the United States in 1975.In addition to Hill's notes, there are also pasted-in press clippings and other printed or photocopied items, the subject matter of which includes Jacques Maritain, a radio production of the mystery play 'The Harrowing of Hell', Christopher Plantin, the Crucifixion, an exhibition of Lombard paintings, the village of Fenfield, autumn flowers, a column on country life, and clippings of Penelope
Shuttle's 'A View from the Window', Frances Bellerby's 'Brother and Sister' and Geoffrey Grigson's 'Hare and Burke'. Also pasted-in is a large colour postcard of Paul Gauguin's 'The Vision After the Sermon'.The notebook is dated in ms on the inside back cover '28 December 1974.'

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Digital photography is strictly prohibited. Photocopying is restricted and the photocopying of correspondence is prohibited. Enquiries relating to the photocopying of material should be addressed to the Head of Special Collections at Leeds University Library in the first instance. Direct quotation from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill is permitted in unpublished PhD theses. The permission of the copyright holder must be sought for the use of quotations from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill for works intended for publication.

Geoffrey Hill

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Papers relating to 'Tenebrae' are held at BC MS 20c Hill/1/6.

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