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Total number of records: 14

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Leeds Poetry14
Brotherton Collection12
English Literature12

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SubjectCount
poetics14
poets as teachers5
correspondence3
authors and publishers2
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)2
interviews2
blindness in literature1
booksreviews1
children's literature1
congresses and conventions1

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People and organisationsCount
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)8
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn8
Crossley-Holland, Kevin3
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)1
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)1
Various1

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The Poet Speaks (Various)

Various

c.1964-1966

Audio recordings of interviews with 8 poets conducted by Hilary Smith and Peter Orr as part of the British Council's 'The Poet Speaks' series.[Side1; Interview 1]: Hilary Smith interviews Martin Bell ...

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Educational Brodcasting and Publishing

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1962-1970

This series contains items created by Thomas Blackburn about education and teaching. It includes items concerned with both broadcasts and written works.

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Drafts

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1966-1968

Includes draft material relating to Kevin Crossley-Holland's limited edition poetry anthology 'Alderney, the Nunnery' (1968).

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Correspondence

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1970-1978

This file contains the following correspondence, some of which includes letters concerning previous circulations of 'The Rain Giver,' under previous titles: - 3 letters from Oxford University Press ...

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Notebook 2

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

September 1962

This notebook, labelled 'Occasional Book' contains diary entries, workings in prose and the following poems and inserts: - 1 press cutting picture and 1 sheet of blotting paper inserted behind front...

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Notebook 18

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1970-1977

Teaching and poetry notebook with teaching notes on Jacobeans and Jacobean drama and William Wordsworth. It contains the following: - A timetable for teaching classes (front endpaper) - Names of B....

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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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Notebook 26

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1977

Notebook with teaching notes for an essay concerned with ways to improve on writing and poetry writing.

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Notebook 28

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1956

Notebook with teaching notes and drafts of poems and plays. The notebook is dated 'May 1956,' and contains the following: - Draft of untitled play (fol. 1-11. This same play appears as Out of the Se...

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Education Conference, Aberdeen College of Education

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1968

This file contains papers from a conference at Aberdeen College of Education, where Thomas Blackburn was invited to speak on the practical criticism of verse in November 1968. It includes two lectures...

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The Poet Speaks : Peter Redgrove

Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)

c.1960-1963

Audio recording of an interview with Peter Redgrove conducted by Peter Orr as part of the British Council's 'The Poet Speaks' series. Subjects discussed include the point of writing poetry; the value ...

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Poetics

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1960s

6 ff ms notes and diagrams on verse forms; 6 ff typescript notes 'Final-Initial Repetition'.

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