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Free Verse and Metricality
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1990-1991
This file contains outlines and early draft chapters for 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse.' Includes ms and typescript plans and synopses, including chapter divisions; a ts script (?) for a readin...
Appendix, Bibliography, Etc.
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1994-1996
This file contains papers relating largely to the Appendix and Bibliography of 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse.' Includes correspondence from Ian Breakwell regarding the cover image for the publi...
Chapter 1: The Healing Process
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1995
2 photocopied drafts, and a corrected, word-processed version of Chapter 1 of 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse,' titled 'The Healing Process --metrical and free verse,' and including a brief Prefa...
Permissions
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1996-1997
This file contains correspondence and other papers relating to permissions for text quoted in 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse' (March-July 1996). Includes correspondence with and/or papers receiv...
Chapter Draft, Notes, Etc.
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1993-1994
Copy of 'A Preliminary Account of Research into the Development of Metrical and Free Verse from Whitman and Hopkins to the Present' (offprinted from 'Area Studies Tsukuba' 11 (1993)); photocopy of a l...
Reference Material, Etc.
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1990-1994
Photocopied reference materials, ts draft and correspondence relating to Silkin's work towards 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse'. Includes a photocopy of Ralph Maud's Introduction to his edition o...
Town and Country School
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1956-1957
Papers relating to Jon Silkin's teaching work at the Town and Country School, London. Includes 3 ts letters to Silkin from the Headmaster, M.D.C. Graham; Silkin's ms records of his earnings; copies of...
Mixed Chapter Drafts (1)
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
c.1992-1995
Drafts of chapters for 'The Life of Metrical and Free Verse.' Includes annotated typescript and ms drafts of and towards Chapter 1; 3 copies of 'A Preliminary Account of Research into the Development ...
Correspondence
Crossley-Holland, Kevin
1983-1988
Box containing correspondence relating to Crossley-Holland's work on the 'Oxford Book of Travel Verse.' Comprises 298 letters covering the years 1983-1988, grouped into the following categories: - G...
Auden: The Orators
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)
1984
This file contains items relating to Geoffrey Hill's lecture 'Auden and The Orators'
The People: Revisions
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)
1974-1979
Typescript letter from Jon Silkin to 'John' (BBC Radio producer John Scotney?), listing suggested revisions to the long poem/verse play 'The People' (16 May 1974); and typescript and ms drafts and rev...
Mixed Criticism (1)
1976-1984
This file contains critical articles and notes on Silkin by various authors. Includes a photocopy of Jon Glover's article 'The Voice in the Peaceable Kingdom,' from 'Bananas' (April 1980), ms intervie...