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Brotherton Collection8
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poets as teachers2
autobiography1
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siddhartha1
supernatural1
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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)8
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn8

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Poem Drafts

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1977

This file contains typescript and manuscript drafts of the following poems published in 'Bread For the Winter Birds' (1980): - Mental Ward - Revenants - Revenants: Psychotic Ward - Gerard Manley ...

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Bread For the Winter Birds

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1950-1980

This series contains items relating to Blackburn's posthumous collection 'Bread For the Winter Birds' (1980), including poem drafts. The volume was a joint project between Blackburn's brother, John, a...

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Edited Poem Drafts

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1980

This file contains poems edited for inclusion in Blackburn's posthumous collection 'Bread For the Winter Birds' (1980). Each typescript has been given a number, though the run of numbers is incomplete...

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Notebook 45

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1975

Notebook containing draft poems, prose notes and critical notes. These include the following: - I still suppose they go on for a few years more (untitled poem, inside front cover) - I would if it w...

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Notebook 50

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1976

Notebook containing drafts of poems, critical notes and fictionalized autobiographical prose: - Now that arth[r]itis conditions... (untitled poem, fol. 1) - Retired at Sixty - It was beginning tha...

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Notebook 17

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1957

Poetry notebook which containing drafts of the following poems: - Only I am breft (untitled poem and notes fol. 1) - I do not think the dawn will ever break (untitled poem fol. 1-3) - Connubial(fo...

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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 9

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1957-1977

Notebook containing teaching notes and poetry drafts. It includes manuscript research notes on John Donne, Shelley, Shakespeare, Gian Carlo Menotti, Homer, Plato, Christianity, Henry Fielding, John Ri...

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