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Brotherton Collection7
Herbert Read Collection3
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
South Bank Show Production Archive2

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poetry11
transcription2
american poetry1
artists' books1
concrete poetry1
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Blackmur, R P (1904-1965)1
Bronte, Charlotte, 1816-18551
Bronte, Emily, 1818-18481
Collard, Lorna Keeling1
Diderot, Denis, 1713-17841
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)1
Levy, D A1
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1
Schaefer, Mike1
Smollett, Tobias George, 1721-17711

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Thamyris : or, Is there a future for poetry?

Trevelyan, R C (1872-1951)

[1925]

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Two sonnets

Collard, Lorna Keeling; Wainwright, Albert; Swan Press (Leeds)

1923

Cover title. Publisher, place and date taken from back cover.

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Essays on the poet and nature

Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882)

[1924]

Pages 61-64 contain advertising matter. Advertised 16 February 1924, Haldeman-Julius weekly, p. 1. Later printings lack three advertisements on outer back cover.

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Language as gesture : essays in poetry

Blackmur, R P (1904-1965)

[1952]

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'Two Sonnets On the 13 May 1873' by Mary Cowden Clarke

13 May 1873

'Two Sonnets On the 13 May 1873' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 18 May 1873. A note in another hand on the back page records that 'dear little blossom' refer...

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Reason and romanticism : essays in literary criticism

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1926

Certain of these essays appeared, sometimes in a different form, in the following periodicals: The Times Literary Supplement; The Criterion; The Yale Review; The Dial.

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Transcript of Hunt's 'The False Lion and the Real Puppy'

c. 1830

Two transcripts of Leigh Hunt's 'The False Lion and the Real Puppy' by Mary Cowden Clarke. At the end of the first she has noted: 'The rough copy - begged for at the time by M.C.C.' and the back page ...

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Tony Harrison in Beeston and Holbeck

1999

Video 1: Melvyn Bragg interviews Tony Harrison (no audio, camera on Bragg). Video 2: Tony Harrison at his childhood home on Tempest Road, Beeston, Leeds; shots of Holbeck Cemetery, Harrison's family g...

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Variation on flip : the distrust breeding uselessness of everything how far til I hit bottom

Levy, D A; Schaefer, Mike

1999

A collection of poetry, concrete poetry and 'Untitled Paintings' by the artist. Printed predominantly on red A4 card and green paper with stapled card covers. Inside back cover a small folder containi...

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Commonplace book

1810

Commonplace book belonging to Charles Cowden Clarke and dated 1810. 185 pages with an index at the back. It is bound in brown leather with decorative embossed borders. Inserts are in a separate envelo...

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Tony Harrison and Prometheus

1999

Video 1: Interview with Tony Harrison (no audio). Shots of golden Prometheus statue Harrison's back yard in Newcastle; Tony Harrison at a kitchen table of the same house, looking at notebooks of Prome...

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