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Total number of records: 256

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Archives218
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English Literature249
Brotherton Collection240
Leeds Poetry217
Herbert Read Collection3

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poets as teachers24
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)21
autobiography16
booksreviews13
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artists' contracts10
poetics8
english poetry8
english literaturehistory and6

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Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)256
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn256
Blackburn, Thomas8
Heard, Gordon F4
University of Leeds4
Campbell, George4
University of Leeds. Department of English Literature4
Macvean, Jean3
Browning, Robert, 1812-18892
Judas Iscariot2

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Archive Collection

Thomas Blackburn Archive

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1893-1988

The items in this collection relate to Thomas Blackburn's personal life, his career as a poet and his teaching career. Comprises: typescripts, autograph manuscripts and other papers relating to Thoma...

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Poetry Collections and Published Poems

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1951-1988

This subfonds contains items concerned with Thomas Blackburn's poetry collections and published poems. It includes corrected proof copies of published volumes of poetry collections, typescripts of col...

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Notebooks and Other Poems

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1930-1977

This subfonds contains notebooks, scrapbooks and drafts of poems compiled by Blackburn. Where a poem or item within a notebook relates to another item in the collection, (for example, a draft of the s...

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Fiction, Criticism and Other Writing

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1955-1977

This subfonds contains items concerned with Blackburn's writing output aside from poetry. It includes papers relating to his semi-autobiographical novels, autobiographies, critical reviews and plays, ...

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Appointments, Teaching and Educational Publications

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1940-1973

This subfonds contains items concerned with Blackburn's employment and educational work aside from his role as poet and author. After the war, Blackburn became an English Literature teacher and worked...

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Correspondence, Family Papers and Photographs

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1893-1986

This subfonds contains correspondence, family papers and photographs. These include both Blackburn and Fenwick family papers as well as Thomas Blackburn's own collected papers.

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The Outer Darkness

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1951

This series comprises a single file containing the following typescripts of poems with annotations, later published in Blackburn's collection 'The Outer Darkness' (1951): - The Beast - Lazarus - T...

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The Holy Stone

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1952-1954

This series comprises a single file containing the following typescripts of poems published in Blackburn's collection 'The Holy Stone' (1954): - Aubade - The Child - Exorcism of Ghosts - There

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In the Fire

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1954-1956

This series comprises a single file containing typescripts of the following poems, later published in Blackburn's collection 'In The Fire' (1956): - Bacchae - The Clockwork - The Drummer - The Ma...

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The Next Word

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1956-1958

This series comprises a single file containing typescripts of the following poems, published in Blackburn's collection 'The Next Word' (1958): - The Citizens - The Lucky Marriage - The Need For Dy...

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A Smell of Burning

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

1957-1962

This series contains items relating to Blackburn's collection 'A Smell of Burning' (1961), including poem drafts, a contract and a sound recording.

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A Breathing Space

Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)

c.1964-1966

This series contains items relating to Blackburn's collection 'A Breathing Space' (1964), including poem drafts, copy, contracts, reviews and papers relating to a musical collaboration with Peter Dick...

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