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Brotherton Collection13
English Literature13
Leeds Poetry13

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autobiography4
children's literature1
correspondence1
mythology, norse1
poetics1
poets as teachers1
siddhartha1
supernatural1
tragedy1

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)13
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn13

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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 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 37

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Notebook including critical notes on Shakespeare's 'Richard III', Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights' and the following poem drafts: - Billions Attack(fol. 8-9) - I will be looking through our cotta...

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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 42

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Notebook containing autobiographical prose and drafts of poems, as follows: - Autobiographical prose (fol. 1-2) - My wife has returned from Sweden... (untitled poem, fol. 3-4) - In a brown coat an...

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Notebook 59

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1951

Notebook containing drafts of poems and a short story. The contents are as follows: - Down dusty corridors she goes to court (front inside cover. Published as Scenes from Childhood VI in The Outer D...

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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 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 38

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1969-1977

Notebook containing personal and critical notes, poems and letters as follows: - Notes on the publication of poetry for a lecture or essay (fol. 3-9) - Notes on self centred behaviour and girls (fo...

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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 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 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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