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Lawrence: Reference Material
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1979-1987
Duplicated ts collections of quotations and poems by D.H. Lawrence, marked 'University Property,' 'Copyright' (in the hand of Geoffrey Hill?); photocopy of a reproduction of D.H. Lawrence's Introduct...
Prose, Criticism, Reviews: 1980s
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1978-1988
This series comprises mixed prose, criticism and reviews written by Jon Silkin in the 1980s. The vast majority of the subject matter of the essays, articles and reviews in the series concerns contempo...
Reviews and Criticism
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1965-1972
This file contains photocopies and press-cuttings of reviews and criticism of Silkin's work, focussing mainly on the collection 'Amana Grass'. Includes reviews and criticism of the collection and indi...
Chapter Draft, Notes, Etc.
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1993-1994
Copy of 'A Preliminary Account of Research into the Development of Metrical and Free Verse from Whitman and Hopkins to the Present' (offprinted from 'Area Studies Tsukuba' 11 (1993)); photocopy of a l...
Wordsworth: The Story of Stories
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1980-1981
This file contains an annotated typescript draft of Silkin's essay 'Wordsworth: the story of stories,' which discusses narrative in Wordsworth's poetry with reference to Coleridge, and includes discus...
On Emily Dickinson
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1980s
Ms list of references and ms drafts on the poetry of Emily Dickinson, and in particular her links with the metaphysical tradition.
The First 24 Years (2)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1985-1986
Photocopied typescript (29 pp) of Jon Silkin's autobiographical essay 'The First Twenty-Four Years,' with ms corrections. The essay was later published in the 'Contemporary Authors' series (1987). The...
Mixed Prose and Criticism (1)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1984-1986
Typescripts of a short item on Basil Bunting's 'Briggflatts' and a letter in response to A.S. Byatt's review of a production of Shelley's 'The Cenci' in the 'Times Literary Supplement' (May 1985); mul...
Responses to Critics
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1959-1961
This file contains ms drafts of responses by Jon Silkin to comments about 'Stand' made by Peter Levi (publication not identified); and to comments made by Anthony Thwaite in an address on contemporary...
Mixed Prose and Criticism (2)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1980-1988
Annotated typescript drafts of Silkin's essay, 'Geoffrey Hill: My Subject was War and My Pity of It,' accompanied by typescript additions and corrections to the paper and related correspondence betwee...
Mixed Prose and Criticism (3)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1980-1983
Ms and annotated typescript drafts of an essay on David Gascoyne, with Gascoyne's comments in a letter dated 9 September 1981; typescript essay 'Sidney Keyes: the scroll and its distinctions,' and a p...
Essays on Lawrence
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1982-1985
Photocopied annotated typescripts of essays by Silkin on Lawrence titled 'Parallelism, A Form,' 'Quick Man: D. H. Lawrence's Poetry' and 'Narrative Distances;' ts and photocopied annotated ts drafts ...