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

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The Judas Tree

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1965

This file contains a 34 page heavily annotated typescript draft of a play by Thomas Blackburn concerning the life of Judas Isacariot. The play became a musical drama through Blackburn's collaboration ...

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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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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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