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Notebook 19
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1945-1977
Teaching notebook including critical notes on the English method, Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Percy Bysshe Shelley, tragedy and Thomas Hardy. Drafts by Blackburn contained in the notebook are as foll...
The Outer Darkness
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1951
This series comprises a single file containing the following typescripts of poems with annotations, later published in Blackburn's collection 'The Outer Darkness' (1951): - The Beast - Lazarus - T...
The Last Farthing
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1960-1971
These files contain draft typescripts, each with the working title 'The Last Farthing.'The plotline and characters in these typescripts suggest that they are early versions of Blackburn's novel 'The F...
Poem Drafts
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1957-1960
This file contains annotated drafts of the following poems from Blackburn's collection 'A Smell of Burning' (1961): - An Aftermath - Another Old Snapshot - Before Gaza - Bombs - Cafe Talk - The...
Poem Drafts
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1971
This file contains typescript drafts of the following poems published in Blackburn's collection 'The Fourth Man' (1971): - Abel - Post Card From Aberdeen - Ageing - All the Immortals - A Broken ...
Poem Drafts
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1975
This file contains typescript drafts of the following poems published in Blackburn's collection 'The Devil's Kitchen' (1975): - Dawn Song - The Farmer's Wife - The Farmer's Wedding
Poem Drafts
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1976
This file contains typescript and manuscript drafts of poems published in Blackburn's collection 'Post Mortem' (1977): - Post Mortem - Phoebe, Helen, Angela
Poem Drafts
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1950-1977
This file contains typescript and manuscript drafts of the following poems published in 'Bread For the Winter Birds' (1980): - Mental Ward - Revenants - Revenants: Psychotic Ward - Gerard Manley ...
Poem Drafts
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1950-1977
This file contains drafts of the following poems collected in 'The Adjacent Kingdom' (1988): - Halloo - Lent - Domine - Casa Montini - Home - Sorrow - Moelwinian - Posthumous - Never The Les...
Notebook
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1947-1949
1 exercise book containing manuscript notes, clippings, and black and white photographs. The clippings include images of paintings by Francis Bacon. The clippings and photographs are occasionally glue...
The Feast of the Wolf
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
c.1960-1971
This subseries contains items relating to Blackburn's vampire novel 'The Feast of the Wolf' which was published in 1971. The novel itself includes some autobiographical elements and is influenced by F...
Record Card
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)
1940-1941
This file contains an index card from Holborn A.R.P detailing Blackburn's time as an enrolled member of the Holborn Light Rescue Service. It states that he left on the 9 September 1941 for the Merchan...