Yeats

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This file contains items largely relating to Hill's teaching on W.B. Yeats on courses at the University of Leeds, including an Introductory English course and a course on English Poetry, and other items collected by Hill relating to his interest in Yeats. Includes:

- typescript draft of Hill's critical article The Conscious Mind's Intelligible Structure: A Debate (8 ff), with Hill's ms corrections and revisions (article published in Agenda, vol. 9. no. 4 - vol. 10 no. 1 (1972/1972);

- small notebook containing ms note for a lecture on Wilfred Owen (5 ff), and an ms lecture on Yeats (19 ff);

- ms lecture notes in red ink Yeats I (4 ff);

- ms lecture notes on Yeats / Easter 1916 (2 ff);

- ms lecture notes Yeats I (4 ff);

- ms lecture / notes on Yeats ([7] ff);

- ms lecture / notes Yeats B (5 ff) and Yeats C ([9] ff), and annotated typescript lecture / notes Yeats D (11 ff);

- ms lectures for Introductory Course, Yeats I (14 ff) and Yeats II (15 ff);

- typescript Yeats: A Select Bibliography, dated 2.1.70;

- photocopied typescript lecture Difficulty is our Plough: Some Thoughts on the Poetry of W.B. Yeats, with Hill's ms corrections and revisions (11 ff);

- 1 f Yeats & Nietzsche with ms bibliographic reference;

- Erratum Slip from Alistair Stead;

- offprint of A. Norman Jeffares's Notes on Pattern in the Byzantine Poems of W.B. Yeats, from Revue des Language Vivantes / Tijdschrift voor Levende Talen (XXXI: 4, 1965), with Jeffares's ms inscription to Hill on front cover;

- clipping of Richard Ellmann's Yeats & Eliot (Encounter, July 1965);

- publicity for A Bibliography of Yeats Criticism 1887-1965;

- clippings of listing for works by and relating to Yeats from Bertram Rota catalogue 186 (Autumn 1973);

- photocopied excerpt from Jon Stallworthy's essay The Black Tower (1963);

- photocopied excerpt from Erich Heller's The Disinherited Mind (1975);

- photocopied excerpt from Conor Cruise O'Brien's essay Passion and Cunnings: Politics of Yeats, from In Exicited Reverie, ed. Jeffares et al. (1965);

- press clippings including Michael Moynihan's A Poet and His Daughter [n.d.], Ronald Bryden's theatre review Myths in Eternity (Observer, 10 November 1968), Seamus Heaney's article Delirium of the Brave (The Listener, 27 November 1969), reviews of Alastair Hamilton's The Appeal of Fascism (New Society, 8 April 1971; Spectator, 17 April 1971; The Listener, 22 April 1971), Joseph Hone's article The Shamrock (The Listener, 23 September 1971), Laurence Lerner's review of Denis Donoghue's biography of Yeats (Spectator, 8 January 1972), Roy Fuller's review of Thomas Edwards's Imagination and Power (The Listener, 9 March 1972), review article The Overman Cometh on works on Nietzsche (New Statesman, 5 January 1973), reviews of W.B. Yeats's Memoirs (New Statesman, 12 January 1973; Spectator, 13 January 1973; Observer, 14 January 1973), letter to the Editor from Michael Yeats (TLS, 23 February 1973), review of 2 works on Yeats (TLS, 1 June 1973), review of Samual Levenson's biography of James
Connolly (The Listener, 7 June 1973), Brigid Brophy's review article Dagda's Daughter (New Statesman, 3 May 1974), letters to the Editor (The Listener, 20 June 1974), Denis Donoghue's review of the autobiography of Lady Gregory (Spectator, 10 August 1974), Kenneth Clark's article Michelangelo as a Painter (The Listener, 29 May 1975), and Donoghue's review of Yeats's Uncollected Prose, vol. 2 (THES, 19 December 1975).

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Geoffrey Hill

Related material

For further papers relating to Hill's article '

'The Conscious Mind's Intelligible Structure': A Debate' see BC MS 20c Hill/4/4.

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