Rosenberg
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Rosenberg
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hill/5/1/176
Date(s): 1959-1998
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/17517
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This file contains various items relating to Isaac Rosenberg. Includes:
- 4 ff ms notes (possibly referring to the Rosenberg Exhibition at the University of Leeds held in 1959);
- clippings of Denis Thomas's review of Joseph Cohen's biography of Rosenberg (The Listener, 22 May 1975), Chimen Abramsky's review of William J. Fishman's East End Jewish Radicals 1875-1914 (TLS, 20 June 1975) and a letter to the Editor in response (TLS, 25 July 1975), Francis Kings' review of biographies of Rosenberg by Jean Moorcroft Wilson and Jean Liddiard (Spectator, 16 August 1975), review articles on Rosenberg from the TLS (29 August 1975) and The Listener (4 September 1975);
- cc ms note from Hill to the Librarian at Leeds University Library with requests for works on Rosenberg, and ms note to Hill from the Librarian (6 - 20 August 1975);
- correspondence relating to the campaign for a commemorative blue plaque for Rosenberg in the East End, including 1 ms postcard to Hill from Liz [n.d.], 2 cc typescript letters from Hill to Frank Kelsall at the GLC and 2 typescript letters from Kelsall to Hill (4 August 1983 - 26 September 1983), 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Joseph Cohen and 1 typescript letter from Cohen to Hill (20 October 1983 - 20 January 1984), 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Jon Silkin and 2 ms and 1 cc typescript letter from Silkin to Hill (20 October 1983 - 20 December 1983);
- 5 index cards with Hill's ms notes;
- typescript lecture (?) Some Aspects of Contemporary British Poetry (15 ff), with ms revisions and corrections;
- ff 11-17 of a longer typescriptl lecture or article;
- 2 ff ms notes on Rosenberg;
- ms note to Hill from a student regarding a dissertation on Rosenberg, with Hill's ms notes;
- a photocopied excerpt from John Woodson's biography of Mark Gertler (1972);
- 1 f ms Rosenberg - further recommended reading, dated 11 April 1992;
- a copy of the syllabus for Hill's course English Poetry and the First World War (UNI HU 557 / CLA EN 570) at Boston University for Spring Semester 1998.Also held in the file is are photocopied excerpts from Thomas Wright's biography of John Payne (1919).
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