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Total number of records: 28

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Brotherton Collection28
English Literature28
Leeds Poetry28

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clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)9
lectures and lecturing england leeds4
authors political and social3
books reviews3
lectures and lecturing boston3
politics and literature3
autobiography2
correspondence2
english poetry2
authors and publishers1

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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)13
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)4
Crossley-Holland, Kevin2
Adams, Margaret1
Armitage, Simon (1963-)1
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)1
Brown, Wayne1
Pollard, Hugh M1
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn1

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Poetry and Socialism

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1962-1972

Photocopies of David Craig's article 'The New Poetry of Socialism' ('New Left Review' 17, Winter 1962) and Stanley Mitchell's 'Romanticism and Socialism' ('New Left Review' 19, March/April 1963); clip...

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Adams, Margaret

4 March 1958 - 1 February 1959

This file contains 2 letters from the social work author Margaret Adams, requesting the use of Blackburn's poem 'Hospital for Defectives' for a book on social work and mental disability.

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Judith Squires

1990 - 1991

Cards addressed to Harrison from Judith Squires, Professor of Political Theory and Dean of the Faculty Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol.

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Letters to Thomas Blackburn

Pollard, Hugh M

13 February 1961

1 letter from a possible student teacher of Thomas Blackburn at the College of St. Mark and St. John, Chelsea, excusing himself from a social event at Blackburn's house where he was to meet John Lehma...

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Andrew Chandler

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

30 September 1993 - 30 November

2 typescript letters to Geoffrey Hill from Andrew Chandler (30 September 1993 - 30 November 1993) and 1 cc typescript fax from Hill to Chandler (7 November 1993). The correspondence regards plans for ...

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Structuralism

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1981-1982

This file contains items collected by Hill relating to structuralism. Includes a clippings of Ernest Gellner's article 'What is Structuralism?' ('TLS', 31 July 1981), and his review of Barry Barnes's ...

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Tacit Pledges: Drafts

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1995-1996

This file contain drafts of Geoffrey Hill's paper on A.E. Housman, 'Tacit Pledges'. Includes a legal notepad containing an untitled ms draft of the paper (24 ff, including footnotes), and ms notes ide...

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Gascoyne

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1957-1972

Ms lecture on David Gascoyne ([13] ff); David Wright's article 'Social Accomplishment', extracted from 'Encounter', 41 (February 1957); and clippings of Kenneth Clark's 'The Skin of Our Teeth' ('The L...

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Dickens

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1960-1977

Ms lecture on Dickens's 'Bleak House' (9 ff); offprint of Mark Spilka's 'Little Nell Revisited', from 'Papers of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters', vol. XLV (1960), with Spilka's ms i...

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The Feast of the Wolf

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1960-1971

This subseries contains items relating to Blackburn's vampire novel 'The Feast of the Wolf' which was published in 1971. The novel itself includes some autobiographical elements and is influenced by F...

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Illustrated Beowulf

Crossley-Holland, Kevin

1986-1988

Includes material related to the illustrated edition of Crossley-Holland's translation of 'Beowulf', published by Boydell & Brewer in 1987, containing: 19 items of correspondence with Boydell & Brewer...

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Samuel Johnson

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1970s

This file contains items relating to Hill's teaching on Samuel Johnson at the University of Leeds. Includes: - typescript lecture notes Johnson I (8 ff), Johnson II (4 ff), Johnson III, IV, V (16 ff...

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