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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)27
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)8
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)6
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Crossley-Holland, Kevin5
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'Theatre Piece notes 1' notebook

c. 1953 - 2009

Denbigh notebook

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Letters to Jon Silkin

7 September 1994

1 ts letter from Andrew McAllister to Jon Silkin, accompanied by photocopies of an interview with Basil Bunting conducted by McAllister and Sean Figgis, and an essay by McAllister on Bunting (both rep...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

14 December 1966 - 13 November 1989

Letters to Jon Silkin from correspondents at the University of California, Irvine. Includes 1 typescript letter from James B. Hall on behalf of the California Poetry Circuit (1966); 1 ts postcard from...

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Poem Drafts (8)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1980-1985

This file contains an envelope with ms notes on strips of paper with the names of periodicals to be acknowledged in 'The Ship's Pasture', arranged in alphabetical order; and ts and ms drafts and copie...

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Out of Battle Drafts (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1968

Carbon copy typescript drafts, largely clean but with some ms annotations, towards 'Out of Battle'. Includes drafts of chapters 1-7, numbered in ms pp. 1-232; an un-numbered draft of chapter 8:ii (Ric...

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Trilling

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1982

This file contains items relating to Hill's teaching on Lionel Trilling at Cambridge University. Trilling was on the syllabus for Hill's course The 'Dissentient Voices' in British and American Poetry,...

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Geoffrey Trease

11 April 1993 - 30 September 1993

4 items of correspondence relating to Geoffrey Trease's children's story 'Missing from Home'. Includes 1 typescript letter from Geoffrey Trease to Geoffrey Hill (11 April 1993), 1 ms letter from Ann T...

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Chapter Draft, Notes, Etc.

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1993-1994

Copy of 'A Preliminary Account of Research into the Development of Metrical and Free Verse from Whitman and Hopkins to the Present' (offprinted from 'Area Studies Tsukuba' 11 (1993)); photocopy of a l...

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Rev. Father Martin Jarrett-Kerr

[1970s?] - 1991

2 typescript letters and 1 ms letter from Rev. Father Martin Jarrett-Kerr to Geoffrey Hill (8 November [n.d.; 1970s?] - 10 January 1991; 1 n.d [1989?]), and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to Jarrett...

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Toryism

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1971-1973

Clippings collected by Geoffrey Hill relating to Toryism, including Brian Walden's article 'The Harsh Vulgarity of Toryism' ('Times Saturday Review', 17 April 1971), Diana Spearman's 'Romantics to Rev...

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Tragedy: Direct and Oblique

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1976-1988

Ms lecture 'Tragedy: 'Direct' and 'Oblique' ' (14 ff; with additional notes on versos of ff 1, and 7-9, and photocopied excerpts pasted to ff 8-9 and 12-14); typescript of part of a lecture on 'King ...

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