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Total number of records: 26

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Brotherton Collection26
English Literature26
Leeds Poetry26

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)26
books reviews7
correspondence3
book covers2
lectures and lecturing england leeds2
proofs (printing)2
artists' contracts1
australian poetry 20th1
authors and publishers1
autobiography1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)12
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)6
Andre Deutsch Ltd1
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn1

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M.P.T.

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1963-1973

This file contains items predominantly relating to modern poetry in translation. Includes issues 1 and 2 of the periodical 'Modern Poetry in Translation' (1965-1966); typescript English translations o...

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Letters to Jon Silkin

c.1970s

Ms note on compliments slip from Peter Jay of Anvil Press Poetry, accompanied by a press cutting from a Romanian newspaper with a translation of Silkin's 'Caring for Animals.'

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Letters to Jon Silkin and Press Cuttings

31 March 1977 - [June] 1984

1 typescript letter and 8 ms letters from the Israeli poet, author and editor Moshe Dor to Jon Silkin. 5 of the letters are accompanied by press cuttings and/or photocopies of Hebrew translations of S...

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Spenser

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1971-1974

Typescript transcript of Spenser's 'Amoretti - Sonnet LXVIII', with Hill's ms annotations; and clippings of reviews of Frank Kermode's 'Shakespeare, Spenser, Donne' by Denis Donoghue ('The Listener', ...

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The Schoolgirl

17 July 1991 - 13 April 1992

Papers relating to Lane Dunlop's translation of Osamu Dazai's 'The Schoolgirl'. Includes 2 typescript postcards and 1 ts letter to Jon Silkin from Dunlop, and 1 carbon copy ts letter from Silkin to Du...

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Israel / Mishkenot Sha'ananim

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

March 1980 - August 1980

Papers relating to Jon Silkin's visit to Israel in 1980, and in particular relating to a lecture delivered by Silkin at Tel-Aviv University, and reaction to it in the Israeli press. Controversy arose ...

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Dryden

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1965-1973

Ms lecture 'Dryden II' (13 ff); ff. X-XIII of an ms lecture on Dryden; 1 f reading notes on Milton ('Paradise Regained'); clippings of article 'Some Suppressed Verses in Dryden's Translation of Juvena...

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Gascoyne

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1957-1972

Ms lecture on David Gascoyne ([13] ff); David Wright's article 'Social Accomplishment', extracted from 'Encounter', 41 (February 1957); and clippings of Kenneth Clark's 'The Skin of Our Teeth' ('The L...

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Ben Dorain

1986-1990

Papers relating to the Northern House reprint of Iain Crichton Smith's translation of Duncan Ban Macintyre's 'Ben Dorain' (originally published by Akros in 1969). Includes 4 ms letters and 1 typescrip...

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Ibsen

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1971-1980

2 ff typescript notes on Rilke and Ibsen, with ms note [to Hill] from Fred Bridgham of the University of Leeds' German Department (22 October 1980); photocopied excerpts showing varying translations o...

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Poems to Eimhir

8 March 1971 - 20 January 1988

Papers relating to Iain Crichton Smith's translation of Gaelic poet Sorley MacLean's [i.e. Somhairle MacGill-Eain] 'Poems to Eimhir'. Includes 7 typescript letters from Giles Gordon at publishers Goll...

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Contracts and Royalties

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1966-1976

This series comprises a single file containing the following items: - Contract with Putnam & Co. Ltd for An Anthology of English Verse 1945-60. - Contract (28 February 1966) for an untitled literar...

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