Notebooks
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Notebooks
Classmark: BC MS 20c Scannell/3/1
Creator(s): Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)
Date(s): c.1964-1967
Size and medium: 2 notebooks in 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18632
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
2 notebooks containing Vernon Scannell's ms drafts and notes for reviews, broadcast talks, etc.Blue notebook labelled 'Reviews, broadcast talks, etc.' contains the following:
- Review of Irish Murdoch's The Italian Girl (1964)
- Review of Elizabeth Taylor's The Soul of Kindness (1964)
- Review of Stanley Middleton's Him They Compelled (1964)
- Review of Denzil Batchelor's The Boxing Companion (1964)
- Notes on Robert Frost and review of The Letters of Robert Frost to Luis Untermeyer (1964)
- Draft for talk on Edward Thomas
- Review of Penelope Gillat's One by One (1965)
- Review of Geoffrey Cotterell's Go Said the Bird (1966)
- Review of T.Y. Pemba's Idols in the Path (1966)
- Review of Peter Munk's That Wilderness is a Cry (1966)
- Review for World of Books (BBC Radio) of William Sanson's Goodbye (1966)
- Notes on Marcel Cerdan
- Response to a letter in the Sunday Times concerning fiction reviews
- Review of Hugo Charteris' The Coat (1966) and Jean Rhys' Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
- Review of David Garnett's Ulterior Motives (1966)
- Review of Alan Turpin's Ladies (1966)
- Review of John Farrimond's Pick and Run (1966)
- Review of Gerald Green's The Legion of Noble Christians (1966)
- Notes on a Poem for Jane
- Poem draft/workings, View From a Dentist's Chair
- Review of A.S. Byatt's The Game (1967) for World of Books (BBC Radio)
- Review of The Letters of Hart Crane
- Poem draft/workings, Letter to the Editor
- Poem draft/workingsRed notebook labelled 'Reviews for TLS and BBC Talks etc ... 1966' contains the following:
- Notes for play An Answering Cry
- Poem for Edmund Blunden
- Review notes for World of Books (BBC Radio)
- Notes for review of thrillers for Woman's Hour (BBC Radio)
- Review of Robin Cook's The Legacy of the Stiff Upper Lip
- Review for TLS of John Green's Reunion
- Review of novel The Return of Lawn Tennis
- Review of Richard Grenier's Yes and Back Again (1966)
- Notes for World of Books (BBC Radio)
- Review of James Herbert's The Disputed Barricade
- Review for World of Books of Lionel Davidson's A Long Way to Shiloh (1966) (BBC Radio)
- Review of Paul Scott's The Jewel in the Crown
- Review of Janice Elliott's The Godmother (1966)
- Review of David Walker's Geordie and Come Back Geordie
- Draft of a letter to John.
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