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Total number of records: 203

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Brotherton Collection203
English Literature203
Leeds Poetry203

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correspondence40
books reviews17
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)13
proofs (printing)9
authors and publishers8
world war, 1939-1945 children7
world war, 1939-1945 education and the7
english poetry 20th century history and criticism6
autobiography5
book proposals5

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)146
British Broadcasting Corporation2
Penguin Books2
Ross, Alan (1922-2001)1
Various1

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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