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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)11
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Letters to Jon Silkin

Various

18 July 1962 - 31 January 1992

Letters to Jon Silkin from the Tate Gallery (Pat Adams), Thames Television, James Thin (booksellers), Alistair Todd, the Training College (Bingley; 2 letters), the Training College (Langham Tower, Sun...

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Letters to Jon Silkin (Conference)

February 1965 - 31 March 1965

1 ms letter from C.C. Wordley, on behalf of the Society for Teachers of English, to Jon Silkin; accompanied by a duplicated typescript circular letter including arrangements for the 1965 S.T.E. confer...

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Poem for Jon Silkin

July 1990

1 ms poem titled 'No, Don't Fuck Off Back to Israel,' signed 'J. Mingay, Darlington July 90.'

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Letters to Jon Silkin

Yorkshire Post

19 October 1955 - 16 May 1960

Letters to Jon Silkin from correspondents at the Yorkshire Post newspaper. Includes 1 typescript letter from Helen Williams, and 1 ms letter from the Literary Editor, W.T. Oliver.

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On Pound's Cantos

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1986-1987

Photocopy of an annotated typescript draft of a long essay (36 pp) on Ezra Pound's 'Cantos,' referring to scholarship on the subject by C.K. Stead and Wendy Stallard Flory, and including discussion of...

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Chapter Drafts: Pound and Imagism

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1992-1993

This file contains ms and typescript drafts towards chapters on Ezra Pound and on imagism for 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse.' The drafts on imagism include introductory matter and discussion of...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

9 August 1963 - 17 October 1963

4 letters to Jon Silkin from the Ministry of Education, including 2 typescript letters and 1 ms letter from Carson J. Read, and 1 ts letter from K.T.V. Humberstone. The correspondence relates to a 'Po...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

25 January 1978 - 13 November 1987

Letters to Jon Silkin from correspondents at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. Includes 1 typescript letter from John T. Irwin (1978); and 2 ts letters from David St. John (1984-1985). Al...

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David Rokeah Translations

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1958-1961

Papers relating to Silkin's translations of poems by David Rokeah. Includes an ms letter from Rokeah to Silkin (6 November 1958), with comments on Silkin's typescript translation of the poems 'What Ca...

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Poets of the Forties Conference

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1979

File produced for delegates the Poets of the Forties conference held at Yr Academi Gymreig in 1979, labelled for Jon Silkin. The file contains duplicated sets of poems by Keith Douglas, Alun Lewis, Si...

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Adult Education, University of Durham

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

October 1978 - April 1979

Papers relating to classes taught by Jon Silkin in the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Durham. Includes photocopies of poems by Geoffrey Hill, accompanied by an ms letter from D...

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Reference Material, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1990-1994

Photocopied reference materials, ts draft and correspondence relating to Silkin's work towards 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse'. Includes a photocopy of Ralph Maud's Introduction to his edition o...

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