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Geoffrey Hill (London Review Bookshop)

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

20 September 2007

Recording of a poetry reading given by Geoffrey Hill, followed by a 'question and answer' session, at the London Review Bookshop on 20 September 2007. Hill introduces and reads his own poems. - Tr. ...

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Class Texts

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1999

3 bound sets of class texts for Hill's Aspects of Poetry and Religion course at Boston University, including excerpts from works by Robert Southwell, John Donne, Robert Burton, William Cowper and Gera...

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Empson Lectures II: Drafts

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

2004

This file contains drafts of Geoffrey Hill's second Empson Lecture, 'A Postscript on Modernist Poetics'. Includes: - an A4 legal notepad with ms draft titled Empson II (43 ff), with ms annotations i...

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Photographs: Boston

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1998 - 2006

2 black and white portraits and 1 colour portrait of Geoffrey Hill taken during his time at Boston University.Held with these photographs are contact prints of 9 black and white portraits of Hill at B...

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Wordsworth

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1981-1986

This file chiefly contains items relating to Hill's teaching on Wordsworth at the University of Cambridge. Includes annotated typescript lecture 'Wordsworth' (11 ff) and annotated typescript lecture '...

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Péguy Drafts

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1980-1982

File containing original and photocopies of drafts towards 'The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy'. Includes: - Typescript drafts with ms revisions of parts 9 and 10; pages variously numbered...

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Notebook 57: Scenes from Comus

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.2001-2004

Small black 'memo' notebook; with ms titled in gold on front cover 'Scenes from Comus 1'.The notebook contains ms poem drafts, fragments and workings towards 'Scenes from Comus', including: - Courtl...

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Courage in Shakespeare

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.2000-2001

This file contains a clean typescript of Hill's critical essay 'Courage in Shakespeare' (15 pp); and a typescript of his Shakespeare for the Millennium lecture on 'Coriolanus' (13 ff) with ms correcti...

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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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Index Cards

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1966-1971

Box containing 97 5"x7" index cards and 1 3"x5" index card. The cards contain Hill's ms reading and planning notes and bibliographic references. Some cards include ms titles assigned by Hill including...

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Houghton Mifflin: Permissions

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

18 December 1995 - 4 March

7 items of correspondence relating to requests for permission to publish or quote from Geoffrey Hill's poetry by correspondents in the United States. Includes: - 1 typescript letter to Geoffrey Hill...

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T.H. Green

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1973-1998

This file contains items relating to a lecture and critical article by Hill on T.H. Green. Includes: - ms lecture Thomas Hill Green (25, [1] pp), identified as a Lecture for [the] English Society 15...

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