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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)48
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Jews Without Arabs: Drafts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1987-1989

Ms and typescript drafts of the poem 'Jews without Arabs', including drafts titled 'Hebrew', 'Absolom was lovely in his death', and 'Enemies'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs of ...

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Notebook 28

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1985

Brown hardback A4 notebook, labelled in ms on spine 'Poems 1985-'. Only the first 21 pages of the notebook are used; these pages are numbered in ms.The notebook contains an ms transcription of Patrick...

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Rhetorics of Value and Intrinsic Value

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1999-2000

This file contains 2 drafts of Hill's Tanner Lecture 'Rhetorics of Value and Intrinsic Value'. Includes: - A4 legal notepad with ms draft (ff. 1-39);

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Brontë

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1960s-1970s

This file contains items related to a lecture on the Bront?s by Geoffrey Hill, collected press clippings and related items. Includes: - ms lecture The Bront?s (9 ff); - typescript copy of lecture T...

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Gurney: Radio Version (4)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1986-1987

Largely clean typescript draft of 'Gurney' adapted for radio ([3], 60 pp), with title-page, 'Gurney: A Radio Drama.'

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Reviews of The Life of Metrical and Free Verse

1997

This file contains a faxed typescript of Fred Beake's review of 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse' ('LMFV') as published in 'The Poet's Voice' (fax dated 26 September 1997); a copy of the 'Northern...

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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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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Hayes, Denis

17 April 1967

1 letter to Thomas Blackburn from Denis Hayes, a London solicitor.

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Notebook 28

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

July 1980

This notebook contains notes and drafts of poetry work.

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Between Politics and Eternity

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1999-2000

This file contains 2 A4 legal notepads with an ms draft towards Hill's critical essay on Dante, 'Between Politics and Eternity'. The first notepad contains ff. 1-17 of the draft, the second notepad co...

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Christine Pagnoulle

28 May 1994 - 5 June 1994

1 typescript letter from Christine Pagnoulle to Geoffrey Hill (28 May 1994) and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Pagnoulle (5 June 1994). Pagnoulle's letter is accompanied by her French translation...

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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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