Larkin
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Larkin
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hill/5/2/49
Creator(s): Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)
Date(s): 1967-1974
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/17652
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
1 f ms lecture notes on Philip Larkin on University of Ibadan headed notepaper, with ms title 'Larkin / Amis / Gunn / Hughes / Silkin'; clippings of Larkin's 'The Explosion' and 'The Old Fools' ('TLS'?, both n.d.); clippings of Donald Davie's review of 'The Oxford Book of 20th-Century English Verse', edited by Larkin ('The Listener', 29 March 1973), Anthony Thwaite's interview with Larkin on 'The Oxford Book of 20th-Century English Verse' ('The Listener', 12 April 1973), and letters in response to Davie's review ('The Listener', 12 April 1973, 19 April 1973, 26 April 1973, 3 May 1973, 10 May 1973); clippings Donald Davie's View column on Larkin's 'Oxford Book of 20th-Century English Verse' and Thwaites's interview ('The Listener', 10 May 1973), letters in response from Larkin and Thwaite ('The Listener', 17 May 1973) and others ('The Listener', 31 May 1973), further letters from Davie ('The Listener', 7 June 1973) and Martin Bell (14 June 1973) and one other ('The Listener', 28 June 1973);
a clipping of Donald Davie's poem 'Replying to Reviewers' ('The Listener', 19 July 1973); clippings of reviews of Larkin's 'Oxford Book of 20th-Century English Verse' by Ian Hamilton ('New Statesman', 30 March 1973), Stephen Spender ('Spectator', 31 March 1973), Cyril Connolly ('Sunday Times', 1 April 1973), A. Alvarez ('Observer', 1 April 1973) and from the 'TLS' (13 April 1973); clippings of letters to the 'TLS' from Larkin ([n.d.] and 31 March 1973), a letter to the Editor ('Times', 27 April 1973); clipping of Julian Symons's 'Viewpoint' article on Larkin's 'Oxford Book of 20th-Century English Verse' ('TLS', 4 May 1973) and letter to the Editor ('TLS', 11 May 1973); clippings of Nigel Frith's article 'Twentieth-Century Slump' ('Spectator', 19 May 1973), article on John Wain's election the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford ('The Times', 28 May 1973), John Betjeman's article 'Prized Poems' ('Sunday Times', 1 July 1973), letter to the Editor ('TLS', 3 August 1973), article 'Two Poets
Promenading' ('Radio Times', 16 August 1973), letter to the Editor from Larkin ('The Times', 20 August 1973), and reviews of Larkin's 'High Windows' by Patricia Beer ('The Listener', 6 June 1974) and Alan Brownjohn ('New Statesman', 14 June 1974).
System of arrangement
Held in file with BC MS 20c Hill/5/2/48.
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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