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Total number of records: 11

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Brotherton Collection11
English Literature11
Leeds Poetry11

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mythology, norse4
poets as teachers3
correspondence2
minotaur (greek mythology)drama2
poetics2
booksreviews1
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)1
eurydice (greek mythology)drama1
greek literature1
mythology, greek1

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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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The Tree of Blood

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1953-1954

This file contains 1 x 20 page annotated typescript and 1 x 20 page manuscript of a play written by Thomas Blackburn concerning old Norse mythology, titled 'The Tree of Blood'. The manuscript version ...

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Notebook 31

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1956-1958

Notebook with critical notes on Yeats, the Romantics and Greek and Cretan mythology. It includes the following: - Notes for a speech on poetry (fol.1) - Notes on a text by Blackman titled Later poe...

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Dark Threshold

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1958

This file contains: - 1 x 25 page typescript,

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Notebook 3

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1975

Teaching notebook containing manuscript notes and research on William Butler Yeats, Tennyson and Norse myths. The cover of the notebook is labelled 'Maud and Idylls. Norsemen.'

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Out of the Sea

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1955-1956

This file contains 1 x 16 page and 1 x 17 page typescript of a play written by Thomas Blackburn based upon the myth of Odysseus. Both typescripts are titled 'Out of the Sea.'

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Minotaur

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1975

This file contains 1 x 28 page typescript and 1 x 30 page typescript, both versions of a play by Thomas Blackburn, titled 'Minotaur.' Both manuscripts appear to have had the alternative title, 'The Bu...

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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 28

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1956

Notebook with teaching notes and drafts of poems and plays. The notebook is dated 'May 1956,' and contains the following: - Draft of untitled play (fol. 1-11. This same play appears as Out of the Se...

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The Bull of The Gods

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1958

These files contain typescripts of a play concerned with the myth of the Minoan Bull, i ncluding: - 1 x 74 page typescript, previously stapled into a brown cover with Blackburn's Leeds University Sc...

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Notebook 19

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1977

Teaching notebook including critical notes on the English method, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Percy Bysshe Shelley, tragedy and Thomas Hardy. Drafts by Blackburn contained in the notebook are as foll...

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