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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)34
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)12
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)7
Crossley-Holland, Kevin7
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn7
Andre Deutsch Ltd3
Brown, Wayne2
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Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)2
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Chapter 1: The Healing Process

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1995

2 photocopied drafts, and a corrected, word-processed version of Chapter 1 of 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse,' titled 'The Healing Process --metrical and free verse,' and including a brief Prefa...

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New Poems 1992 -

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1992-1993

This file contains a set of photocopied typescript poems apparently selected by Silkin for a new poetry collection. The poems are: - My Grandmother's Gift - My Father's Mother - The Fathers - The...

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Poems

c.1965-1967

This file contains typescripts (2 ff.) of the following poems by Mark Roskill: - Little Blounce - John Wragg?s Review Book - Godfathers - H.L.W. - The Air Raid - An Old House - This Place - T...

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Student Publications

1959-1965

Copies of students magazines collected by Silkin during his time at the University of Leeds. Includes copies of 'Poetry and Audience' vol. 7, no. 16 (26 Feb 1960), vol. 11, no. 9 (6 Dec 1963) (2 copie...

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Pound: Mauberley

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1981-1986

This file contains items relating to Hill's teaching on Pound's 'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' at Cambridge University, on the course Creation and Attrition in the Writings of Some American Authors of the Ni...

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Swift

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1963-1981

This file contains papers relating to Hill's contribution to a book of essays on Jonathan Swift, originally planned by Dipak Nandy around 1965; and press clippings relating to Swift collected by Hill....

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Letters to Jon Silkin

January 1981 - 22 July 1997

6 typescript letters, 2 ms letters, 2 postcards and 1 Christmas card from the poet Richard Kell to Jon Silkin. Includes 2 letters dated 29 June 1981. The first is accompanied by a 'final draft' and an...

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Correspondence and Translations

21 February 1991 - 30 September 1997

Extensive correspondence between Tomoyuki Iino and Jon Silkin relating to their work collaborating on an anthology of modern Japanese poetry translated into English. Includes 15 ms postcards (1 in Jap...

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Wordsworth

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1955-1974

This file contains items relating to Hill's teaching on Wordsworth at the University of Leeds, and other items relating to Wordsworth collected by Hill. Includes ms lecture 'Resolution and Independenc...

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Notebook 15

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

February 1974

This notebook contains notes and drafts of prose and poetry, including the following: - Clean Monday, Rhamnous [?], pp. 3-5 - Like a place I think I must have been to ..., untitled poem, p. 6 - Th...

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David Wright

Wright, David (1920-1994)

6 February 1983 - 29 August 1994

15 items of correspondence between David Wright and Geoffrey Hill. Includes 8 typescript letters, 2 ms letters from, and 2 ms letters written on the backs of colour photographs from Wright to Hill (6 ...

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Notebook 54

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

July 1952

Notebook containing drafts of the following poems: - The Denial - To the Spectator - Further Scenes from Childhood(fol. 3-6) - Gilles de Raiz(fol. 7-9. Published The Holy Stone(1954) - A visit h...

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