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Brotherton Collection11
English Literature11
Leeds Poetry11

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autobiography2
mythology, norse2
children's literature1
native american culture1
poetics1
poets as teachers1
siddhartha1
supernatural1
tragedy1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)11
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn11

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Notebook 39

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1974

Notebook that contains critical and personal notes and drafts of poems. This includes: - Notes on Tennyson (fol. 1-13) - November 1974(fol. 14) - Conversation Piece(fol. 15) - You've got the swag...

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Notebook 56

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1955-1956

Notebook containing drafts of poems and a fragment of a play. Many of the drafts are related to Notebook 55: - If I am I (untitled poem, fol.1. See also Notebook 55) - I mean by daring men (untitle...

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Notebook 57

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1977

Notebook containing drafts and notes for poems, including the following: - This is the hand that held the knife (untitled poem, fol.1) - You'll never find the place where it began (untitled poem, f...

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Notebook 54

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

July 1952

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - The Denial - To the Spectator - Further Scenes from Childhood(fol. 3-6) - Gilles de Raiz(fol. 7-9. Published The Holy Stone(1954) - A visit h...

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Notebook 18

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Teaching and poetry notebook with teaching notes on Jacobeans and Jacobean drama and William Wordsworth. It contains the following: - A timetable for teaching classes (front endpaper) - Names of B....

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Notebook 51

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1951

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - Consciousness(fol. 1) - J.A.B(fol. 1) - Morning turns the event between subtle fingers (untitled poem, fol. 2) - His head rolled forward on hi...

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Notebook 27

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

June 1953 - December 1954

Notebook with drafts of poems and dramatic works, and some prose passages. Most of the poems appear to have been published in the collection'In the Fire' (1956), which was written during Blackburn's t...

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Notebook 53

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1948

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - The Return(Front inside cover and fol. 1. Published in In the Fire(1958) - In Memoriam(fol. 1) - Manic(fol. 2) - Aftermath(fol. 2-4 and 5-6. S...

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Notebook 49

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1975

Notebook containing autobiographical prose, draft poems and personal notes: - Autobiographical prose (fol. 1-8, 9-16) - Last Night (fol. 8) - Grandma Florence... (untitled poem, fol. 8-9) - Final...

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Notebook 30

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1930-1931

Notebook dated 1930-31, containing the following drafts of poetry and prose: - If you give your whole mind to a thing... (untitled poem, fol. 1) - The Christian(fol. 1-2) - Repressions(fol. 3) - ...

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Notebook 17

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1957

Poetry notebook which containing drafts of the following poems: - Only I am breft (untitled poem and notes fol. 1) - I do not think the dawn will ever break (untitled poem fol. 1-3) - Connubial(fo...

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