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Total number of records: 63

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Brotherton Collection63
English Literature63
Leeds Poetry63

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clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)12
notebooks10
correspondence6
proofs (printing)3
books reviews2
english poetry2
lectures and lecturing england leeds2
arab-israeli conflict1
authors and publishers1
autobiography1

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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)36
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)8
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)3
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn3
Crossley-Holland, Kevin2
Kirkup, James (1918-2009)2
Scannell, Vernon (1922-2007)2
Brown, Wayne1
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)1
Turner, William Price1

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From 190058
From 20005

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Up to latest8

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Robert Eddison

c. 1970s

One letter and one card addressed to Harrison from Robert Eddison, who had appeared in Phaedra Britannica and in the American production of the Misanthrope in 1975.

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Letters from Jon Silkin

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

13 March 1991

1 carbon copy typescript letter from Jon Silkin to Vanessa Redgrave, outlining his views on Israel and Palestine.

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'TB VIII/Lecture on Ted Hughes Poems 1974? & Insomnia Poems 1977'

c.1974 - 1977

Red exercise book labelled by Julia Blackburn.

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The Illiterates: Revised Script

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

April 1987

Carbon copy typescript of 'The Illiterates,' with ms revisions and corrections in red in the hand of Jon Silkin, mainly on pp. 1-20. The script also has ms pages numbers and notes in pencil in the han...

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"Poems 1982-83"

1982 - 1983

Notes and drafts for poems later published in 10 Sonnets ?, The Gaze of the Gorgon and collected in Selected Poems, including ?Cypress and Cedar?, ?The Red Lights of Plenty? (for Karl Marx centenary),...

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Odi Babare 'Notebook V Textus Receptus [Numbering Provisional]'

c.2010

Red A4 hardback notebook labelled 'ODI BABARE Notebook V Textus Receptus [Numbering Provisional]'. Contains neat drafts with numbered verses. Also contains a poster for Wolfson lecture series in Oxfor...

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"Poems 1991-93-99"

1991 - 1999

Notes and drafts for poems with the following provisional titles: 'Initial Illumination?, 'A Cold Coming','Hotlines', 'Poetic Justice', 'Still Life', 'The Bird of China', 'Grog', 'The Deathwatch Dan...

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Poem Fragments

Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

c.1955-1964

8 ms poem fragments, all undated: - Only another sickness - All men have a sacred treasure within them - On a theme written by a schoolboy ... - Now the roofs are washed with red - And the morni...

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Drafts towards The True Mistery of the Nativity

Kirkup, James (1918-2009)

1955-1956

Papers relating to Kirkup's translation and adaptation from the French Medieval Mystery Cycle of Arnoul and Simon Gréban. Includes an ms draft/translation of scene 1, Annunciation, dated November 195...

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Mercian Hymns: Printer's Copy

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1966-1967

This file contains a complete typescript draft of the collection 'Mercian Hymns', including title-page, publishing information, table of contents, and acknowledgments (40 ff). The draft is marked up i...

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Notebook: Fragments and Workings

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.2000-2003

File containing a small red spiral-bound memo book with ms poem fragments and workings (only the first 5 leaves are used; the remainder of the notebook is blank); and an envelope with postmark date 20...

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Go See the Angry Kings (II)

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1979-1988

Typescript lecture 'Go See the Angry Kings (II)' (12 ff; incomplete) with Hill's ms annotations and revisions; photocopied typescript programmes for a production of 'Kemp's Jig' at the Theatre Royal, ...

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