T.S. Eliot

Description

This file contains items collected by Hill relating to T.S. Eliot, and his lecture notes and drafts for teaching on Eliot at the University of Leeds. Includes:

- a typescript copy of the title page to Prufrock and Other Observations, with poem La Figlia Che Piange on verso;

- an offprint of G. Wilson Knight's Thoughts on the Wasteland, from The Denver Quartlerly, vol. 7 no. 2 (summer 1972), with Wilson Knight's ms autograph;

- ms lecture/notes on Gerontion (8 ff) on University of Leeds headed notepaper;

- annotated typescript review of Eliot's Collected Poems 1909-1962 by Hill, with title The Poet as Arbiter (2 ff);

- ms lecture on Eliot (11 ff, including Appendix), with ms notes on versos of ff. 1 and 5;

- ms lecture/notes titled Eliot I (4 ff);

- ms lecture/notes titled Eliot II (4 ff);

- ms lecture/notes titled Eliot III (6 ff);

- a copy of Notes and Queries, vol. 194 no. 6 (19 March 1949), with Grover Smith's article T.S. Eliot's Lady of the Rocks;

- 1 f ms notes on Eliot/bibliographic references;

- a photocopied page from a bookseller's catalogue listing works by Eliot;

- ms transcription from Oliver Goldsmith's When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly and ms notes on Tiresias;

- various press clippings on Eliot including a clipping of Hill's review of Eliot's Collected Poems, The Poet as Arbiter (Yorkshire Post, 3 October 1963); Cyril Connolly's article Revolutionary out of Missouri (Sunday Times, 10 January 1965); Philip Toynbee's article T.S. Eliot (Observer Weekend, 10 January 1965); article The Manuscript of The Waste Land (TLS, 7 November 1968); Cyril Connolly's article The Poet's Workshop (7 November 1971); Helen Gardner's article Altered in Fulfilment (New Statesman, 12 November 1971); D.W. Harding's article A Piece of Rhythmical Grumbling (The Listener, 18 November 1971); reviews of Eliot's The Wasteland (Time magazine, 6 December 1971; TLS, 10 December 1971; Spectator, 1 January 1972); letters to the Editor regarding reviews of The Waste Land (TLS 17 December 1971), from Ted Hughes (Sunday Times, 12 January 1972), G. Wilson Knight (TLS 28 January 1972); Bernard Bergonzi's review of Roger Kojecky's T.S. Eliot's Social Criticism (New Society, 27 January
1972); Craig Raine's article Met him Pikehoses: The Waste Land as a Buddhist Poem (TLS, 4 May 1973), and letter to the Editor regarding the article (TLS, 25 May 1973); commentary article on a lecture on Eliot by Christopher Ricks (TLS, 2 November 1973); review of A. Walton Litz's Eliot in His Time (TLS, 3 May 1974); D.J. Enright's review article Possum Exposed (The Listener, 15 August 1974); Stephen Spender's review article In Eliot's Cave (The New York Review, 19 September 1974); a clipping of James Fenton's article Don't Stick it on Foulness (New Statesman, 26 May 1972), with Hill's ms note cf Eliot. East Coker.

Access and usage

Reproduction

Access

Access to this part of the collection is protected under the Data Protection Act. You will need to complete a data protection access form and return it to Special Collections for review by staff before access can be granted

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

Related subjects / tags

WARNING: many of our records have not been classified by subject. So if you search our catalogue by subject using the links below then you are unlikely to find all relevant records. But you will find some...