M.P.T.
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: M.P.T.
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hill/5/2/109
Creator(s): Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)
Date(s): 1963-1973
Language: German; Russian; Spanish
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/17712
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This file contains items predominantly relating to modern poetry in translation. Includes issues 1 and 2 of the periodical 'Modern Poetry in Translation' (1965-1966); typescript English translations of an excerpt 'Of Jan Hus and Jan Zizka', the poem 'Zizka's Battle Song' and 'The Good Soldier Schweik: A Religious Debate'; typescript English translations of Frantisek Halas's 'Torso of Hope' and 'Don Quixote at War' by Edith Pargeter; typescript English translation of the first section of Peter Weiss's 'The Investigation', Canto 9: The Bunker III, with Hill's ms note and underscorings; typescript English translation of an excerpt from Goethe's 'The Sorrows of Werther' (3 ff); typescript English translation of Konstantin Biebl's 'The Antipodes' by Edith Pargeter; typescript English translations of poems by Vladim?r Holan (2 ff) and Josef Hanzl?k (3 ff); typescript concrete poetry by Vaclav Havel translated into English (1 f); photocopies of English translations of poems by Hans Magnus
Enzensberger (12 ff) by Michael Hamburger; typescript English translations of Enzenzberger's 'utopia' and 'verteidigung der w?lfe gegen die l?mmer' (4 ff), marked 'Enzensberger 1' and 'Enzensberger 2' in ms and with ms corrections; ms (and typescript) workings towards a translation of an Enzensberger poem in the hand of Raymond Hargreaves (2 ff); typescript English translation of Georg Trakl's 'Klage'; typescript with Trakl's 'Gesang einer Gefangenen Amsel' in German and English, with ms notes in the hand of Raymond Hargreaves; typescript of Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Sine klawen durch die wolken sint geslagen ...' (in German); typescript of poems by Andrei Voznesensky in Russian (5 ff); and a photocopied list of donations from the Vice Chancellor to the School of English Library (University of Leeds; n.d., ca. 1970).The file also contains clippings of John Spurling's interview of Jorge Luis Borges ('The Listener', 8 July 1971), review article 'Exile, Silence and Death' ('TLS', 15 October
1971), a review of Octavio Paz's Claude Lévi-Strauss ('The Listener', 17 February 1972), and a review of Pierre Reverdy's 'Selected Poems' ('TLS', 2 November 1973); a copy of 'Insula' num. 198 (May 1963); and clippings of Ricardo Gullon's 'El Prologo, Novela del Novelista' ('Insula', num. 201-202, [n.d.; 1963]), Marco Gutierrez's article 'Breve Panorama de la Poesi? Peruana Actual' ('Insula', num. 202, [n.d.; 1963]), and articles on Jorge Guillen ('Insula', num. 205, December 1963).
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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