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Total number of records: 149

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Brotherton Collection149
English Literature149
Leeds Poetry149

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poets as teachers22
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)15
autobiography14
authors and publishers10
booksreviews10
correspondence10
artists' contracts8
proofs (printing)6
poetics5
mythology, norse4

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)149
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn149
Blackburn, Margaret Mcguire1
Gatien, Dominique1

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From 1900148

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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

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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

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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