Notebook, 1970s-1990s

 
Containers:
Box 59 (MS Acc13.092)
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File
Content Summary:
Pt 2 of "Les Editions La Pastourelle" gold and black dappled notebook 200 x 140. [c 300 pages]. Draft essay on the nature and parts of opera; "Poetry For Observer" Judges notes Booker Prize (complex voting record) Rates Of Exchange, A.N. Wilson - Scandal, Ackroyd Last Testament of OW "In Exile" [notes for autobiographical essay] "Floreat Laureate" "Westbourne Grove" "Pies Irae" "Observer Books Of The Year 1990" "Titles For Literary Magazine Conference Paper" "People To Receive Copies Of 'Automatic Oracle'" Notes for "Mars"; notes on [Ezra] Pound; "Azari's Aerial Theatre" "Savannah Bay" "Old Lady – 1985" "Nothing Ever Happened To Me: A Book Against Autobiography" further notes "Radio, Autobiography Book": "Inventing The Past" "Consuming The Present" "Remembering The Future"; Notes for Translation Prize; further developed notes for Autobiography [a good working draft state]; "Cromwell"; Notes for [Stephen] Spender obituary]; draft contents for 1989 OUP Book [?] some 19 trial titles for the collection [a very interesting list indeed]; notes for a lecture on Pope; extensive notes on television; "Poets names For [Ian] Hamilton" "The Firm" "The Start" "Beachcomber" "A Little Like Drawing" "Talking To A Stranger" "Fr [ederick] Raphael" "Gift Copies Of 'Possible Worlds'" "Raymond Carver" notes for his selection and introduction to Aurum [Great English Poets Series, published by Clarkson Potter (NY)] "The Mahabharata" "Fairy Story" "South Bank Show – Pasternak" "Testimony" "Solovki Power" "Brodsky" "Bradbury- Notes In The Margin" "Peter Bell The Third" "South Bank – Helpmann [?]" "Poems For New Collection OUP To Be published, Spring 1992" "? Title – Read Between The Lines" "Paper For Graz" "Poems Nominated For Cohen Award" "Themes For Royal Academy Lecture" "The Irradiated Poem" "Byron Essay" "Acknowledgements COB" "Gwen Harwood" [a selection of GH poem titles over three pages] notes on Aurum Burns, Browning for Aurum; notes "Influences: Childhood - Youth to 21" "Special Dislikes [literary]" checklist for "Poems for new collection OUP - due Autumn (Winter) 1994

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