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Total number of records: 11

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Brotherton Collection11
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Leeds Poetry11

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autobiography2
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siddhartha1
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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)8
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn8
Crossley-Holland, Kevin2
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)1

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Notebook 40

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1970

Notebook containing critical notes on the Augustans, Dr. Johnson, Defoe and drafts of Blackburn's own poetry and book reviews, as follows: - Notes on the Augustans (fol. 1-12) - Notes on Dr. Johnso...

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Notebook 52

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1951-1954

Notebook labelled '1951 Post 'Outer Darkness' ', containing drafts of the following poems: - Jacob(Inside front cover) - The Newcomers(fol. 1-2) - Samson(fol. 2-3) - Jacob(fol. 3-4. Revision of ...

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Notebook 55

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1955-1956

Notebook containing the following drafts of poems: - Eros and Agape(fol. 1-2. Published in Into the Fire(1956) - Crime Time(fol. 2-3) - Family History(fol. 3-4, 8-10. Published in Into the Fire(19...

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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 50

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1976

Notebook containing drafts of poems, critical notes and fictionalized autobiographical prose: - Now that arth[r]itis conditions... (untitled poem, fol. 1) - Retired at Sixty - It was beginning tha...

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Notebook 9

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

September 1965- August 1966

This notebook contains notes and drafts, including the following: - 1 sheet with ms note Includes The Rain-Giver placed loose behind front cover - Old acquaintance gone to seed..., pp. 5-7, 12-17 ...

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Notebook 49

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1975

Notebook containing autobiographical prose, draft poems and personal notes: - Autobiographical prose (fol. 1-8, 9-16) - Last Night (fol. 8) - Grandma Florence... (untitled poem, fol. 8-9) - Final...

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Notebook 51

Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)

1974

This notebook contains photographs and typescript and manuscript poems, often with annotations by the author. Some are labelled with ms notes on where items were published or submitted.The contents ar...

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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 17

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1957

Poetry notebook which containing drafts of the following poems: - Only I am breft (untitled poem and notes fol. 1) - I do not think the dawn will ever break (untitled poem fol. 1-3) - Connubial(fo...

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Notebook 12

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

December 1968 - March 1970

The period covered in this notebook coincides with Crossley-Holland's tenure of the Gregory Fellowship in Poetry at the University of Leeds, and includes drafts of poems published in 'The Rain-Giver' ...

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