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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)38
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Notebook 'XV 3 May 10 - Nov 11 10'

2010

Black A4 hardback notebook labelled 'XV 3 May 10 - Nov 11 10'. Contains miscellaneous notes and drafts. Front pages glued together with front page blacked out in marker pen with 'miscellany' on front.

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'Antiope' notebook

c. 1953 - 2009

Includes pasted in research notes. Denbigh notebook.

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Canaan: US Edition

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1997

This file contains papers relating to the American edition of Geoffrey Hill's 'Canaan', published by Houghton Mifflin in 1997. Includes 1 ts letter from Christopher Carduff to Hill (28 April 1997), ac...

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Drafts: Ajuga

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1982-1984

Annotated typescript drafts of the poem 'Ajuga,' including drafts titled 'Here.'

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Notebook 34

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1977

Notebook which contains the following drafts of poems: - Why do you preserve your grief... (untitled, fol. 1, 3-4) - It was two o'clock... (untitled, fol. 4-6) - After those interr[o]gation[s] tha...

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Gunn

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1960s

Ms lecture 'Thom Gunn' (11 ff; with additional notes on versos of ff. 3 and 10); 1 f ms notes 'Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes'; and a photocopied excerpt from Gunn's Introduction to the 'Selected Poems of Ful...

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Notebook 57

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1977

Notebook containing drafts and notes for poems, including the following: - This is the hand that held the knife (untitled poem, fol.1) - You'll never find the place where it began (untitled poem, f...

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Whitman IV

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1986-1987

This file contains Hill's ms lecture 'Whitman II' (15 ff; additional notes on versos of ff. 1-5, 7, 10-11), identified on the file in which it was originally held as 'Whitman IV: 'Beginners'

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Hopkins: The Kingfisher

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1996-2005

This file contains copies of Hill's lecture on Hopkins's 'As Kingfishers Catch Fire', delivered as part of his course on Hopkins at Boston University (GRS RN 830 / GRS EN 776). Includes an ms and type...

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Alan MacCormack

1973

1 ms letter from Alan MacCormack to Geoffrey Hill (n.d.), and 1 cc typescript letter from Hill to MacCormack (17 October 1973). The correspondence concerns MacCormack's wish to set Hill's 'The Penteco...

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Hopkins: Class Notes

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1986

This file contains items relating to Hill's teaching on Gerard Manley Hopkins at Cambridge University. Includes: - a mounted photocopy of Hopkins's The Windhover with Hill's ms notes, and mounted ph...

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The Conscious Mind's Intelligible Structure

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1970-1971

This file contains annotated typescript drafts towards Hill's critical essay on W.B. Yeats 'The Conscious Mind's Intelligible Structure', published in 'Agenda' magazine, vol. 9 no. 4 - vol. 10 no. 1 (...

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