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Total number of records: 375

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Leeds Poetry371
Brotherton Collection368
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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)100
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)99
Crossley-Holland, Kevin75
Brown, Wayne19
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)12
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn12
Blackburn, Margaret Mcguire2
Amey, Michael1
Barker, George (1913-1991)1
Barnard, John1

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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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Introduction

Blackburn, Margaret McGuire

c.1980

Typescripts of Margaret Blackburn's introduction to 'Bread For the Winter Birds' (1980). The accompanying letter is unsigned and addressed to Anthony Whitome at Hutchinsons publishers, and indicates t...

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Letter

Macvean, Jean

13 August 1987

Letter from Jean MacVean, editor of Blackburn's 'The Adjacent Kingdom,' to Reg Carr, the Librarian at Leeds University Library, concerning thanks for a subsidy for publication and the sending of compl...

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Contract, Etc.

8 April 1965 - March 1968

This file contains letters and a contract from Argo Record Company Limited concerning Blackburn's appearance in the 'The Poet Speaks' record series and his royalties.

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Notebook 15

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Teaching notebook including manuscript research and criticism notes on Shakespearean tragedy and John Milton's 'Paradise Lost'. Fol. 1-40 contain clippings of a text on 'Paradise Lost' (author unident...

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Notebook 16

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Teaching notebook including manuscript critical notes on Thomas Peacock, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, D.H Lawrence and Ben Jonson and research notes on religion, Catholicism and...

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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 32

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1970

Notebook containing miscellaneous addresses and notes, shopping lists, notes, poem with the first line 'In Venice...' (fol. 23-28), and a letter from Blackburn to his daughter Julia (fol. 29-31) .

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Notebook 33

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1974

Notebook containing autobiographical prose and drafts of a letter and poems. Includes: - Autobiographical prose containing themes and scenes used in The Feast of the Wolf(1971) , (fol. 1-17) . - Po...

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Notebook 35

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1976

Exercise book labelled 'Readings', and containing personal notes, autobiographical information, letters and poetry as follows: - Personal notes about meanings of own poetry (fol. 1-3) - Pain(fol. 3...

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Notebook 38

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1969-1977

Notebook containing personal and critical notes, poems and letters as follows: - Notes on the publication of poetry for a lecture or essay (fol. 3-9) - Notes on self centred behaviour and girls (fo...

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Notebook 7

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1945-1975

Teaching notebook containing the following: - Manuscript research notes on William Blake, Samuel Johnson, Robert Browning, Alexander Pope and Joseph Conrad's Victory: An Island Tale(fol. 3-73; 74-84...

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