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Drafts
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
1966-1968
Includes draft material relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's limited edition poetry anthology 'Alderney, the Nunnery' (1968).
Correspondence
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
1970-1978
This file contains the following correspondence, some of which includes letters concerning previous circulations of 'The Rain Giver,' under previous titles: - 3 letters from Oxford University Press ...
Notebook 2
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
September 1962
This notebook, labelled 'Occasional Book' contains diary entries, workings in prose and the following poems and inserts: - 1 press cutting picture and 1 sheet of blotting paper inserted behind front...
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....
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...
Notebook 26
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1945-1977
Notebook with teaching notes for an essay concerned with ways to improve on writing and poetry writing.
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...
Education Conference, Aberdeen College of Education
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1968
This file contains papers from a conference at Aberdeen College of Education, where Thomas Blackburn was invited to speak on the practical criticism of verse in November 1968. It includes two lectures...
The Poet Speaks : Peter Redgrove
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)
c.1960-1963
Audio recording of an interview with Peter Redgrove conducted by Peter Orr as part of the British Council's 'The Poet Speaks' series. Subjects discussed include the point of writing poetry; the value ...
Poetics
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)
1960s
6 ff ms notes and diagrams on verse forms; 6 ff typescript notes 'Final-Initial Repetition'.
The Poetry Adviser
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1966
This file contains a 5 page typescript of Thomas Blackburn's article 'The Poetry Advisor', about writing poetry. The article was published in the journal 'Review of English Literature,' vol. 8, no. 1 ...
The Poet and Blindness
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
10 February 1962
This file contains a 4 page radio script for a broadcast by Thomas Blackburn for the BBC Home Service as part of their 'World of Books' series. It was transmitted on Saturday 10th February 1962. The b...