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Total number of records: 9

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Brotherton Collection9
English Literature8
Leeds Poetry8

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SubjectCount
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)9
war poetry, english3
books reviews2
world war, 1914-19182
world war, 1914-1918 poetry2
biography reviews1
catalogs, booksellers'1
concert programs1
correspondence1
exhibition catalogs1

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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)2
Kirkup, James (1918-2009)2

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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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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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Review of Cohen Biography

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1975

Items relating to Silkin's review of Joseph Cohen's 'Journey to the Trenches: The Life of Isaac Rosenberg, 1890-1918' (1975). Includes a ts letter from Douglas [Hill] at 'Tribune' requesting that Silk...

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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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Resource Material, Etc. (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1917-1918

Items collected by Silkin as resource/background material for 'The Penguin Book of First World War Prose,' and more generally relating to his interest in the War. Includes items purchased from an unkn...

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Poems in the Press

Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

c.1957-1959

Press cuttings of 'The Body Builder', 'Thunder and Lightning', and 'Public Holiday' (from 'The Listener'?); and corrected proof of 'Posy' for the 'Times Literary Supplement'. All are annotated by Kirk...

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Poems in the Press

Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

1956-1961

This series consists of ts and ms poem drafts, with cuttings of the poems as they appeared in newspapers and periodicals.

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First World War

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1986-1988

This file contains items relating to Hill's teaching on the course Four Poets of the First World War at Cambridge University, and other items collected by Hill relating to the War. Includes ms of 2 In...

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Press Cuttings, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1961-1969

Press cuttings collected by Silkin, relating to the two World Wars and the literature of the First World War. Includes Philip Hobsbaum's article 'The Road Not Taken' ( 'The Listener,' 23 November 1961...

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