Teaching and Related Materials (General)
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Teaching and Related Materials (General)
Classmark: BC MS 20c Hill/5/1
Creator(s): Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)()
Date(s): c.1955-2005
Size and medium: 22 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/17336
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
This series comprises an extensive sequence of files chiefly relating to Geoffrey Hill's teaching activities at Leeds, Cambridge and Boston Universities, including the texts of lectures, copies of texts used in class, and examples of syllabi and examination papers. Frequently held with these items are press clippings, photocopied articles and excerpts and other items collected by Hill as reference material.The series also includes some papers relating to Hill's other lecturing activities and critical work, including reviews of works relating to W.H. Auden, John Berryman, William Empson, and Ezra Pound; critical writing on Robert Burton, T.S. Eliot, T.H. Green, A.E. Housman, Shakespeare's 'Cymbelline', Jonathan Swift, Allen Tate, William Tyndale and Robert Vaughan; the Churchill Lecture at (Bristol University, 1980), the Bateson Memorial Lecture (Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1984); the Clark Lectures (Trinity College, Cambridge, 1986); and the British Academy Warton Lecture on English
Poetry (1998).A document mapping the papers relating to Hill's teaching and lecturing at Leeds, Cambridge and Boston is available.
System of arrangement
The files in this series were arranged by Hill in a long alphabetical sequence by subject matter. This arrangement has been retained, although it should be noted that the originally sequence included a number of labelled but empty files which have not been accounted for here. The file titles generally reflect the titles assigned by Hill.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
Access to this part of the collection is protected under the Data Protection Act. You will need to complete a data protection access form and return it to Special Collections for review by staff before access can be granted
Digital photography is strictly prohibited. Photocopying is restricted and the photocopying of correspondence is prohibited. Enquiries relating to the photocopying of material should be addressed to the Head of Special Collections at Leeds University Library in the first instance. Direct quotation from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill is permitted in unpublished PhD theses. The permission of the copyright holder must be sought for the use of quotations from manuscripts by Geoffrey Hill for works intended for publication.
Geoffrey Hill