Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 28 records

Total number of records: 28

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection28
English Literature28
Leeds Poetry28

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)5
correspondence4
autobiography2
poetry translating2
book proposals1
congresses and conventions1
english drama1
english poetry1
french poetry translations into1
hebrew poetry, modern translating1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)9
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)8
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn8
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)6
Crossley-Holland, Kevin1
Poetry and Audience1

Archive File

Language, Suffering Silence

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1998-1999

Photocopied typescript of Geoffrey Hill's paper 'Language, Suffering, Silence' (17 ff) marked 'Copy of Author's Original' on first page, followed by 1 f ms list of names (including Hill); an offprint ...

More details


Archive File

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 ...

More details


Archive File

Poem Drafts (1)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1986

Ms and typescript drafts of the poems 'Durham Bread', 'The Silence' and 'Gifts'. The drafts are undated, but Silkin's use of the backs of old letters, etc. and an ms note on the original file dates th...

More details


Archive File

Hill: Suffering Lectures

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1996-1999

This file contains a typescript copy of Hill's lecture 'Language, Suffering and Silence' (16 ff), with ms corrections; a typescript copy of Hill's lecture 'Suffering - Language - Value' (23 ff) with m...

More details


Archive File

David Rokeah Translations

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1958-1961

Papers relating to Silkin's translations of poems by David Rokeah. Includes an ms letter from Rokeah to Silkin (6 November 1958), with comments on Silkin's typescript translation of the poems 'What Ca...

More details


Archive File

Poem Drafts and Workings (2)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959

Ms and typescript drafts and workings of the following poems: - And what is he / Whose death none feels? - A Rubbish Tip (Enclosed by Trees) - To those who in the confused harmony of silence... -...

More details


Archive File

Association of Literary Scholars and Critics

14 January - 9 June 1998

5 items of correspondence relating to Geoffrey Hill's participation in the Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics in 1998. Includes 1 faxed typescript letter and 1 types...

More details


Archive File

Three American Poets

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1967

This file contains a clipping of a review article by Thomas Blackburn about the following books: - Bly, Robert Silence in the Snowy Fields(London: Cape, 1967) - Arberry, JohnSelected Poems(London: ...

More details


Archive File

Poem Drafts and Workings (10)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1996-1997

Ms and typescript drafts and workings of the following poems: - Wales of the Welsh (including drafts titled Under the Ash Tree a Woman is Resting) - Without Name (from the Spanish of Lope de Vega) ...

More details


Archive File

Letters to Jon Silkin

16 January 1976 - 3 November 1997

12 ms letters, 3 ts letters and 1 photocopied ts fax from Dennis Silk to Jon Silkin. Silk's letter dated 3 November 1997 is accompanied by a photocopied ts of his 'Kasidas.' There are also 2 short pho...

More details


Archive File

Poem Drafts and Workings (6)

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1996-1997

Ms and typescript drafts, workings and copies of the following poems: - The Life of Tenderness - Uncrowned Earth - A Quaker's Death - Female God(including drafts titled Baruch) - A Wild Cherry T...

More details


Archive File

Untitled Typescript Poems

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1940-1977

Typescripts/drafts of the following untitled poems by Thomas Blackburn: - Of your absence I am reminded ... - But who shall come home to his own country ... (labelled as section II of a poem) - Lo...

More details