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Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)364
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)173
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)67
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn67
Crossley-Holland, Kevin51
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918-2006)12
Kirkup, James (1918-2009)12
Redgrove, Peter (1932-2003)8
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Archive Sub-collection

Poetry Collections

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1953-2007

This subfonds comprises items relating to published collections of Geoffrey Hill's poetry, covering the period from prior to the publication of his first major collection, 'For the Unfallen' (1959) to...

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Essay Collection

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

c.1996-1997

This file contains papers assembled by Jon Silkin ca. 1996-1997 with a view to publishing a collection of his critical essays. Includes a copy of 'Stand' 25:4 (autumn 1994), containing 'Gurney's Voice...

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Tenebrae: Draft Collection

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1977-1978

Largely clean typescript draft of Geoffrey Hill's poetry collection 'Tenebrae'. Includes title-page, epigraph, poems in the order in which they appear in the published work, and acknowledgments. The p...

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Collected Poems (1985)

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1984-1985

This series comprises items relating to the publication of Geoffrey Hill's 'Collected Poems', published by Penguin in 1985. The collection brought together poems published in the collections 'For the ...

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Proofs of Collected Poems

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1985

These files contain proofs of Geoffrey Hill's 'Collected Poems', and some related items. They include: - 18 colour proofs of the cover for Collected Poems, with a further colour copy of the cover on...

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New and Collected Poems

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

c.1992-1994

This series comprises single file relating to Geoffrey Hill's 'New and Collected Poems 1952-1992', published by Houghton Mifflin in 1994. The file contains photocopied pages with the poems 'In Memory ...

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Canaan: Draft Collection

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1996

This file contains a complete typescript/photocopied typescript draft of Geoffrey Hill's collection 'Canaan'. Originally held in a hard binder with spine label 'Hill + New Poems.' The draft collection...

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Canaan: Draft Collection

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1996

Photocopied draft of Geoffrey Hill's collection 'Canaan'. With 'cover' including black and white image as used on the cover of the published work; title-page with ms note 'Copyright ? 1996 by Geoffrey...

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Canaan: Draft Collections

Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)

1996

This file contains 2 photocopied typescript drafts of Geoffrey Hill's collection 'Canaan'. Both copies include cover and title-page. One copy includes an epigram, and the pages comprising poems are nu...

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Correspondence: Brotherton Collection

3 June - 3 July 1964

2 typescript letters from David Masson (Sub-Librarian at the Brotherton Library) to Geoffrey Hill, and 1 ms letter from Hill to A.N. Jeffares. The correspondence related to audio recordings of Gregory...

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Review of Collected Works

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1979

Items relating to Silkin's review of 'The Collected Works of Isaac Rosenberg,' edited by Ian Parsons (1979). Includes 2 annotated typescript drafts of the review (one a carbon copy); a corrected proof...

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Review of Collected Works

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

20 April 1979

Copy of New Statesman, 20 April 1979, including Silkin's review of 'The Collected Works of Isaac Rosenberg,' edited by Ian Parsons (London: Hogarth Press, 1979).

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