Allott Lectures
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Allott Lectures
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hill/6/ALL
Creator(s): Various
Date(s): 19 August 1986 - 16 November
Size and medium: 1
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/17806
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
Correspondence concerning the Kenneth Allott Lecture in Poetry at the University of Livepool. Includes
- 1 typecript letter to Geoffrey Hill from K.G. McWatters (19 August 1986) and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to McWalters (17 September 1986);
- 5 typescript and 1 me letter from Miriam Allott to Hill (24 August 1986 - 17 March 1988), and 2 cc typescript letters from Hill to Allott (17 September 1986 - 14 March 1988);
- 7 typescript letters from John Fisher to Hill (24 September 1986 - 19 May 1988), and 3 cc typescript letters from Hill to Fisher (8 October 1986 - 27 October 1987);
- 1 typescript letter from Bob Hind to Hill (19 December 1986);
- 2 typescript letters from R.E. Waller to Hill (20 August 1992 - 23 November 1992), and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Waller (16 November 1992).Held with these items are 2 ff ms notes; pages extracted from a publisher's catalogue; copies of published versions of Allott Lectures by Seamus Heaney ('The Making of Music: Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats', delivered 9 February 1978), Donald Davie ('Kenneth Allott and the Thirties', delivered 17 January 1980), and Charles Tomlinson ('The Sense of the Past: Three Twentieth-Century British Poets', delivered 21 October 1982); and a copy of W.W. Robson's Annual Hopkins Lecture, 'Hopkins and Literary Criticism' (delivered 4 March 1974).
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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 Direct quotation from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill is permitted in unpublished PhD theses.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