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spanish poetry classical era, 1500-1700 translations1
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Sylvia: Drafts and Workings

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1993-1994

Ms and typescript drafts and workings towards the poem Sylvia. Includes drafts with the following titles: - Iris and Parsley - Parsley and Iris - A Field of Flies - Sylvia (including a photocopie...

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Poem Drafts (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1986

Ms and typescript drafts of the poems 'Durham Bread', 'The Silence' and 'Gifts'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs of old letters, etc. and an ms note on the original file dates th...

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David Rokeah Translations

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1958-1961

Papers relating to Silkin's translations of poems by David Rokeah. Includes an ms letter from Rokeah to Silkin (6 November 1958), with comments on Silkin's typescript translation of the poems 'What Ca...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959

Ms and typescript drafts and workings of the following poems: - And what is he / Whose death none feels? - A Rubbish Tip (Enclosed by Trees) - To those who in the confused harmony of silence... -...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (10)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1996-1997

Ms and typescript drafts and workings of the following poems: - Wales of the Welsh (including drafts titled Under the Ash Tree a Woman is Resting) - Without Name (from the Spanish of Lope de Vega) ...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (6)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1996-1997

Ms and typescript drafts, workings and copies of the following poems: - The Life of Tenderness - Uncrowned Earth - A Quaker's Death - Female God(including drafts titled Baruch) - A Wild Cherry T...

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Poems and Drafts (4)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1984-1991

Ms and typescript drafts and copies of fourteen poems/sequences published in 'The Lens-Breakers': - Intimacy - Civil War Burial Ground - Cherokee(titled Mercy and the Cherokees) - Thirst - Trans...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (6)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1954-1965

Ms and typescript drafts and workings of the following poems: - Black-Eye Bean - The Blindness - The Body in Winter - By that house where we met ... - The Confidence Trick(for the Soho Fair, 195...

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Poem Drafts and Workings (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1994-1997

Ms and typescript drafts and workings, and ts and photocopied copies of the following poems: - Father's Preparing (including drafts titled Father and the Switch) - Wills (including drafts titled Mo...

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Mixed Prose and Criticism (3)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1980-1983

Ms and annotated typescript drafts of an essay on David Gascoyne, with Gascoyne's comments in a letter dated 9 September 1981; typescript essay 'Sidney Keyes: the scroll and its distinctions,' and a p...

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