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Total number of records: 101

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Leeds Poetry101
Brotherton Collection99
English Literature99

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correspondence12
world war, 1914-1918 poetry12
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)8
books reviews7
war poetry, english6
war poetry, english history and5
world war, 1914-1918 poetry history and criticism5
world war, 1914-1918 literature history and4
lectures and lecturing3
world war, 1914-19183

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Kirkup, James (1918-2009)31
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)26
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)16
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)8
Brown, Wayne4
Bell, Martin (1918-1978)2
Amey, Michael1
Barker, George (1913-1991)1
Mitchell, Adrian (1932-2008)1

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Undated Letters 1918-1922

Brown, Wayne

c.1971-1973

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War Poets 1914-1918

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1980-1984

12 ff ms notes on Ivor Gurney and Charles Hamilton Sorley, including notes headed 'Draft for Gurney Lecture'; 2 ff photocopied typescript excerpt from Hill's essay 'Poetry as 'Menace' and 'Atonement'

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Reviews of the Psalms With Their Spoils

1980-1982

This file contains photocopies and press-cuttings of reviews of 'The Psalms With Their Spoils.'. Includes photocopies and press cuttings of reviews by Peter Mortimer (unidentified publication); Edna L...

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Sassoon Reviews

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1983

Ms bibliographical references for reviews of Siegfried Sassoon's poetry dating between 1918 and 1930; and photocopies of reviews of Sassoon's 'Counter-Attack and Other Poems' from the 'Times Literary ...

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Poster Stamps/Labels

November 1918

Page 32 of 'The Ladies' Home Journal' for November 1918, featuring a collection of morale-boosting poster stamps/labels to be pasted to the backs of letters sent to (American) servicemen involved in t...

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Shell Shock in The Lancet

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1984

Photocopies of articles from issues of 'The Lancet' dating to the First World War. Includes David Forsyth's 'Functional Nerve Disease and the Shock of Battle' ('The Lancet,' 25 December 1915), F.W. Bu...

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Isaac Rosenberg

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959-1991

Items relating to Jon Silkin's interest in and research into the Anglo-Jewish poet Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918). Includes papers relating to the Rosenberg Exhibition held at the University of Leeds in ...

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The Unresolved Conflict: Planning and Outline

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1990

This file contains papers relating to early planning for 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse.' Includes ms notes and plans for the book's scope and chapter outlines; a largely photocopied typescript ...

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World War I Poets

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1970-1976

Items collected by Geoffrey Hill relating to poets of the First World War. Includes pamphlet 'The Poets' Hands', comprising of facsimile mss of poems by Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg, Edward Thom...

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Rosenberg

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1964-1997

This file contains items relating to Hill's lecturing on Isaac Rosenberg. Includes ms and typescript lecture 'Isaac Rosenberg' (12 ff); 3 ff ms notes on Rosenberg; ms transcriptions of Rosenberg's 'Ex...

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Edna Manley Interviews

Brown, Wayne

22 August 1971- 28 June 1972

This file contains typescript transcripts of interviews conducted by Wayne Brown with Edna Manley concerning her artistic development and life 1916-1925. The file contents are as follows; notes in bra...

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War Poets

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1970s

Typescript list 'Poems to be used for 'War Poets' ' and photocopies; photocopies of published poems by Ivor Gurney, Wilfred Owen, Herbert Read, Wilhelm Kremm, August Stramm, Siegfried Sassoon and Isa...

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