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Total number of records: 111

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Leeds Poetry111
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clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)14
teaching aids and9
correspondence8
poetry readings7
books reviews2
folk songs, arabic translations into2
lectures and lecturing2
notebooks2
autobiography1
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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)49
Crossley-Holland, Kevin14
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)12
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)8
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn8
Brown, Wayne2
Armitage, Simon (1963-)1
Ebert, Kathleen1
Mitchell, Adrian (1932-2008)1
Penguin Books1

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Clark Lectures: Dryden's Prize Song

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1985-1986

Photocopied typescript draft of Hill's Clark Lecture 'Dryden's Prize Song' (19 ff).The file in which these drafts were originally held is labelled 'Dryden's Prize Song <Spare Copy>.'

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Allan Seager

24 April 1961 - 14 November 1961

1 ms letter and 1 typescript letter from Allan Seager to Geoffrey Hill. The correspondence refers to the dedication of Hill's 'Locust Songs' to Seager, and the publication of 'Locust Songs' in 'Stand'...

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Poems

c.1965-1967

This file contains typescripts (6 ff.) of the following poems by George MacBeth: - The Bamboo Nightingale - A Funeral Song to America, for her Negro Dead in Vietnam - Marshall - LOMN Analysis of ...

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Soliloquies and Sea Voices

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

c.1994

This file (originally numbered '7' by Crossley-Holland) contains drafts of songs from the libretto for 'The Wildman'. Includes ms and ts draft of 'Soliloquies' (27 ff.) and ms and ts drafts of 'Song o...

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Ebert, Kathleen

c.1960-1977

This file contains three poems written by Kathleen Ebert: - The Heart and the Mask - Rogation

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Letters to Jon Silkin and Poems

26 May 1982 - 28 June 1988

1 ms letter, 1 Christmas card and 1 typescript letter from Tong-Ch'un Sin (Tong-Choon Shin) to Jon Silkin. The ms letter is accompanied by photocopied pages comprising photographs, 2 poems in translat...

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Poems

c.1964-1965

This file contains 2 sheets of annotated ts poems by Jean Symons: - A Problem of Identity - Freedom - Little Song - Before Sleep - Listening to a Lecture

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Poems

c.1964-1965

This file contains 3 annotated ts sheets poems by David Tribe: - The Certainty of Uncertainty - Cold in the Head - To Contemporary Heroes - Easter Communion - Gold Therapy

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Poem Drafts S-W

Brown, Wayne

c.1970-1980

This file contains annotated typescript drafts of the following poems: - Slides of my Life - Suicide's Note - A Trinidad Journal - Whales - White Girl Black Song

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Pound

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1990s

This file contains an ms lecture by Hill titled 'E.P.'s Prize Song' (23 ff), and multiple photocopies of an excerpt from Pound's 'How to Read', referring to Phahnpoeia, Melopoeia and Logopoeia.

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Dies Irae

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1960-1970

This file contains 4 pages of typescript fragments of a play concerned with a Christian religious theme. This part appears to be an act or song titled 'Dies Irae' or 'Day of Wrath' i.e. the Last Judge...

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Poems

c.1965-1967

This file contains typescripts (2 ff.) of the following poems by Alan Brownjohn, some with Kevin Crossley-Holland's ms comments: - Girl Counting - Hedonist - Winter Appointment - Old Company - T...

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