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Total number of records: 37

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Brotherton Collection37
English Literature37
Leeds Poetry36

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correspondence8
world war, 1914-1918 poetry8
books reviews6
war poetry, english history and5
world war, 1914-1918 poetry history and criticism5
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)4
world war, 1914-1918 literature history and4
world war, 1914-1918 poetry bibliography3
exhibition catalogs2
military psychiatry2

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)25
Mitchell, Adrian (1932-2008)1
Silkin, Jon, 1930-19971

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Draft of The Psalms With Their Spoils (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1978-1979

Incomplete clean typescript draft of 'The Psalms With Their Spoils'. Includes contents page, acknowledgements, 'Resting Place', 'Leafgold', 'I in Another Place', 'The Barbarians' sequence and 'Wildnes...

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Editorials from The New Republic

February 1988

Word-processed letter from David Levy (University of Oklahoma) to Jon Silkin, accompanying photocopies of editorials from the first edition of 'The New Republic' (both 7 November 1914) by Walter Lippm...

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Revisions, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1996-1997

Ms notes of titles to add to the Select Bibliography; ms list of sales of hard- and paperback copies of 'Out of Battle' worldwide (dated 27/6/97); ms list relating to permissions for Rosenberg text; c...

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Shell Shock in The Lancet

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1984

Photocopies of articles from issues of 'The Lancet' dating to the First World War. Includes David Forsyth's 'Functional Nerve Disease and the Shock of Battle' ('The Lancet,' 25 December 1915), F.W. Bu...

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Papers on War Literature

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1985-1986

Corrected typescript draft (partially a photocopy) of Silkin's essay 'Hebrew Visions of War,' including discussion of Old Testamant references to war by English war poets including Alun Lewis and Isaa...

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Resource Material, Etc. (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1917-1918

Items collected by Silkin as resource/background material for 'The Penguin Book of First World War Prose,' and more generally relating to his interest in the War. Includes items purchased from an unkn...

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Press Cuttings, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1961-1969

Press cuttings collected by Silkin, relating to the two World Wars and the literature of the First World War. Includes Philip Hobsbaum's article 'The Road Not Taken' ( 'The Listener,' 23 November 1961...

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Rosenberg Dissertation and Essay

1987-1989

Copies of student work on Rosenberg's poetry collected by Silkin.

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[On Rosenberg and Owen]

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1963-1970

Ms and annotated ts draft paper discussing the poetry and experience of Isaac Rosenberg and Wilfred Owen.

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The Truth of War

1984

Photocopy of Desmond Graham's critical work, 'The Truth of War: Owen, Blunden and Rosenberg' (1984).

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An Exploration of the Literature of Siegfried Sassoon

1986

Spiral-bound, word-processed copy of Jan Miles' special study, 'An Exploration of the Literature of Siegfried Sassoon,' submiitted in partial fulfillment of the Combined Studies B.A. at the College of...

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Poster Stamps/Labels

November 1918

Page 32 of 'The Ladies' Home Journal' for November 1918, featuring a collection of morale-boosting poster stamps/labels to be pasted to the backs of letters sent to (American) servicemen involved in t...

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