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Total number of records: 90

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proofs (printing)7
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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)36
Crossley-Holland, Kevin8
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)7
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn7
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)6
Penguin Books5
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Church, Richard1
Robertson, Robin1
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Berryman/Review

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1969-1984

This file contains items relating to Hill's review of John Haffenden's 'Life of John Berryman' (1982) for 'Essays in Criticism'. Includes: - an offprint of Hill's review of Haffenden's biography and...

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Gurney: Productions, Drafts, Etc. (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1984-1985

This file contains mixed items relating to 'Gurney,' including photocopies of correspondence and the contract between Jon Silkin and Alec (Dave) Bell, and Leonie Scott Matthews of Pentameters Theatre ...

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Church, Richard

5 July 1956 and 8 September 1971

This file contains correspondence from Richard Church, poet, writer and critic, to Thomas Blackburn.

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Chekhov

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1976-1979

Theater programmes for productions of Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' at the Leeds Grand Theatre (1976) and the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield (1979), 'The Cherry Orchard' at the National Theatre (1978), and '...

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Henry IV

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1982

Typescript lecture 'Shakespeare's Histories III: Henry IV part i & ii' ([15] ff; 2 leaves numbered f. 14) with Hill's ms revisions and additions; 2 programmes for a Royal Shakespeare Company productio...

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Poets in Public

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1965-1966

This series comprises a single file of papers relating to 'Poets in Public', a group founded in May 1963, and commissioned to present a series of poetry concerts at the 1965 Edinburgh Festival. Includ...

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Royalty Statements

Penguin Books

1992

Photocopies of royalty statements for the period 1 January 1992 to 20 June 1992 for 'The Penguin Book of First World War Prose' and 'The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry.'

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Trying to Hide Treblinka: Drafts

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1989-1990

Ms and typescripts drafts of the poem 'Trying to Hide Treblinka'. Also contained in this file is a short catalogue of Jewish Studies titles published by Basil Blackwell.

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Copies of Fourteen Poems

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1989-1991

Typescript, photocopied and proof copies of fourteen poems published in 'The Lens-Breakers': - Flypaper - Beings - Aching to Survive - Intimacy (2 page proofs, dated 28 Feb 1991) - Paying for Fo...

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Typescript and Proofs

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1991-1992

Clean typescript of 'The Lens-Breakers,' including 44 of the 48 poems in the published collection, with ms page numbers. The poems 'Energy is the Basis of Morals' and 'A Psalm Concerning Absence' are ...

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Class Texts

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1999

3 bound sets of class texts for Hill's Aspects of Poetry and Religion course at Boston University, including excerpts from works by Robert Southwell, John Donne, Robert Burton, William Cowper and Gera...

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Poems

c.1964-1965

This file contains 2 ts sheets of poems by Donald Ward: - Boy in a Tube Train - Fall of a Leader - Dragonflies - Master of Hounds - The Climbers

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