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Sir Frank Kermode Papers
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Born in Douglas, Isle of Man, Sir Frank Kermode was one of the most distinguished literary critics of his time. He was Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London (1967-1974) when, under his leadership, the English department offered a series of graduate seminars which introduced contemporary French critical theory to Britain for the first time. Kermode was also King Edward Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University (1974-1982), teacher at numerous universities including Harvard and Columbia, and author or editor of more than fifty volumes. He was a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Sciences. Kermode was co-editor of the magazine Encounter with Melvin J. Lasky from around 1958 to 1967, when he resigned after learning of the covert U.S. Central Intelligence Agency funding of the magazine. Encounter (London, England) was a controversial literary magazine, founded in 1953 by poet Stephen Spender and early neo-conservative author Irving Kristol. It celebrated its greatest years in terms of readership and influence under Melvin J. Lasky, who succeeded Kristol in 1958 and who would serve as the main editor until the magazine closed its doors in 1990. In 1966-1967 it was revealed that the C.I.A. had subsidized the magazine for more than ten years through the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and that Melvin Lasky, Kermode's co-editor, was the CIA agent. Spender also resigned from Encounter in 1967, following the events of the scandal.
Best known of his writings are his studies of Shakespeare and D. H. Lawrence (1973), his edition of The Oxford Anthology of English Literature (2 vols., 1973), the popular Fontana Modern Masters series, and his provocative studies The Sense of an Ending (1967), The Genesis of Secrecy (1979), and The Art of Telling (1983). Kermode's memoir, Not Entitled was published in 1995 and his selection of essays, Pieces of My Mind, in 2003. Kermode served in the Royal Navy during World War II, for a total of six years, much of it in Iceland. He was knighted in 1991. Kermode died on August 17, 2010, aged 90, in Cambridge, England.
The collection consists of critical writings, reviews, essays, lectures, transcripts, radio broadcast transcripts, correspondence, photographs, and printed material of Kermode, representing his entire extant archive. The collection includes original typescripts and drafts of Kermode's published work, as well as transcripts of lectures and radio broadcasts. There are many uncollected essays dating from 1969 to 2003. An extensive circle of major correspondents from the academic and literary world, such as Al Alvarez, William Empson, William Golding, Kenneth Koch, Muriel Spark, Stephen and Natasha Spender, and Allen Tate, throw light on the literature and critical thought of that era. Included is substantial material documenting the circumstances leading to the resignation of Kermode and Spender from the board of Encounter in 1967, after it was revealed that the magazine was funded by the CIA.
The collection is arranged into the following series:
Purchased from Bertram Rota in 2006 (AM 2007-28). Additions purchased in January 2009 (AM 2009-77), January 2011 (AM 2011-66), and 2015 (AM 2016-18).
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This collection was processed by Dina Britain on December 20, 2006. Finding aid written by Dina Britain on January 11, 2007 and updated by Sylvia Yu in April 2011. Additions were made in June 2009 (AM 2009-77) and April 2011 (AM 2011-66).
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People
- Alvarez, A. (Alfred) (1929-2019)
- Golding, William (1911-1993)
- Lasky, Melvin J.
- Spark, Muriel
- Spender, Natasha
- Spender, Stephen
- Tate, Allen (1899-1979)
Organization
Subject
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Authors, American -- 20th century. -- Correspondence
- Authors, English, 20th century, Correspondence
- Authors, English, 20th century, Criticism and interpretation
- Criticism -- Great Britain. -- 20th century
- Critics -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- Critics -- England -- 20th century -- Manuscripts
- Editors -- England. -- 20th century -- Correspondence
- English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- English periodicals -- History. -- 20th century -- Sources
- Radio addresses, debates, etc
- Publisher
- Manuscripts Division
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
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Collection Inventory
This series consists of writings by Kermode in the form of manuscripts, typescripts, proof pages, and drafts of his books, reviews, essays, and lectures, as well as transcripts of interviews and transmission copies of radio broadcasts, and correspondence.
The series is organized into four subseries: A. Critical Writings, B. Reviews and Essays, C. Lectures, and D. Radio Broadcasts.
Physical Description12 boxes
This first subseries includes manuscripts and typescripts of books, prefaces, chapters in books, or lectures meant for publication written by Kermode. It also contains page proofs with autograph corrections and annotations, and correspondence with editors.
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order by title or by subject.
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This book was published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2004. The folders consist of approximately 600 pages incorporating both drafts and final proofs.
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Typewritten draft with autograph corrections and annotations by the author.
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Final page proofs, a dust jacket, and an index.
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Several draft copies and other miscellaneous pages from the book.
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A forward to the American edition of Angus Wilson's book. Original typescript with autograph corrections and annotations, 12 pp.; and final carbon typescript, 15 pp.
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Publisher's proofs with autograph corrections.
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Handwritten note-book and autograph manuscript pages describing Kermode's earliest years until his army service, and approximately 100 pages of typescript with autograph corrections and a photocopied typescript.
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The second section of a never-to-be-finished autobiography; typescript with autograph corrections, 71pp.
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Typescript with autograph corrections of Kermode's article which was published in Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory, edited by S. Budick -& W. Iser. New York, Columbia University Press.
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Photocopied typescript of the first 98 pages with occasional autograph corrections and a cover letter from Barbara Hanrahan, Humanities Editor, at The University of Chicago Press.
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Printers' proof pages with some autograph corrections by Kermode, as well as proof pages of The University of Chicago Press edition also with autograph corrections.
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Typewritten notes for an unpublished work on Wallace Stevens.
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Autograph manuscript and notes.
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Typed bibliography, photocopy of typescript, 219 pp.; and photocopies of printed pages.
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Photocopied typescript of the University of Sussex Talk, 16 pp.
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Spiral-bound typescript copy with autograph corrections and annotations of Kermode's book Shakespeare: King Lear: A Casebook.
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Typescript with autograph corrections and annotations from Kermode's book Andrew Marvell, 22 pp. , and various drafts with autograph corrections.
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Typescript with autograph corrections of chapter 1 of the book The Apocalypse and the Shape of Things to Come edited by Frances Carey
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Typed page, labeled "Comus", photocopied typescript of pertinent quotes, with autograph corrections, 5 pp.
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Part of a chapter from Kermode's book Pleasing Myself: From Beowulf to Philip Roth.
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Typescript, 24 pp., with additional manuscript notes.
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Carbon copy typescript, 38 pp., and other miscellaneous manuscript notes and typed pages from Kermode's book The Genesis of Secrecy: On the Interpretation of Narrative, with newspaper clippings, and correspondence.
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Typescript with autograph corrections of the table of Contents and of chapter 1, together with some manuscript notes and photocopied pages.
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Consists of a preface and several essays, some previously published and some unpublished, that were collected by Kermode and published in his new book Pieces of My Mind: Writings 1958-2002. The essays included are: "Botticelli Recovered"; "The Cambridge Connection", 2000; " and Cornelius and Voltemand" (from Forms of Attention, 1984); "The English Novel, Circa 1907", 1972; "Forgetting", 1988); "Hawthorne and the Types" (from The Classic, 1988); "Literary Criticism: Old and New Styles", 2001; "The Man in the Macintosh" (from the The Genesis of Secrecy, 1978); "Memory", 1994; "Mixed Feelings" (from History and Value, 1988); "Modernism, Post modernism, and Explanation"; "The Plain Sense of Things", 1986; "Secrets and Narrative Sequence", 1980; "Shakespeare and Boito", 2002; "Solitary Confinement" (from Sense of an Ending, 1967); " Wuthering Heights as a Classic" (from The Classic, 1983).
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Proof pages and correspondence with publishers and editors.
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Preface to The Golden Chain, with correspondence, manuscript pages, and related photocopied articles.
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Manuscripts, typewritten preface to Kermode's book written by Robert Alter, page-proofs, and correspondence with the publishers.
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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures; photocopied typescript, 207 pp.
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An address given at the memorial meeting in the Senate House on February 2, 1980. Two copies of a carbon typescript with autograph corrections and annotations, 15 pp.
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Page proofs with a cover letter from the publishers Farrar, Straus - & Giroux, Inc., approx. 800 pp. The proofs contain notes by Elizabeth Sifton and Edward Tayler. (Continued in Box 6)
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Manuscripts of part of the introduction, two typescript copies of the chapter titled "Troilus and Cressida", both with autograph corrections; and final spiral-bound corrected proof pages.
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Lecture on English Poetry, given at Mount Holyoke College (1962). Original typescript of lecture as delivered , with detailed autograph notes, 38 pp.
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Early carbon typescript and approximately 30 pp. of draft typescript interspersed with autograph notes.
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Introduction to the book with autograph corrections; typescript.
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Photocopied typescript, 14 pp.
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Photocopies of essays and chapters from Kermode's books including "Poet and Dancer Before Diaghilev" from Puzzles and Epiphanies; "Wallace Stevens, Dwelling Poetically in Connecticut" from An Appetite for Poetry; "World Without End or Beginning" and " Solitary Confinement" from Sense of an Ending; and two pages from "On Certain Verses of Shakespeare" from Reading the Renaissance: Ideas and Idioms from Shakespeare to Milton. Also included are miscellaneous manuscript and typewritten pages, and Kermode's curriculum vitae.
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This subseries includes essays and reviews of published and unpublished works, and some uncollected essays. They consist mainly of carbon copy typescripts of the reviews, and the publications in which they appeared, wherever available.
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order by author or by title.
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Carbon copy typescript with autograph corrections of a review published in the New York Times Book Review, July 3, 1983.
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Review for the London Review of Books, May 10, 2001; typescript, 9 pp.
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Carbon copy typescript of a review published in the London Review of Books, October 14, 1981.
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Two drafts, 5 pp. each, one is a typescript with autograph corrections, and one is a carbon copy of a review published in the New Statesman, April 30, 1973.
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Typescript with autograph notes by Robert Silvers; 17 pp.
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Review published in the Guardian; typescript, 2 pp.
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Typescript with autograph corrections of a review published in the New York Review of Books.
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Review published in the Guardian; carbon copy typescript, 2 pp.
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Review published in the London Review of Books, December 16, 1981; carbon copy typescript, 5 pp.
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Two copies of the review published in the Guardian, July 2, 1981, one copy is a typescript with autograph corrections and annotations; the second is a carbon copy typescript.
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Typescript.
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Review, with autograph corrections, for the London Review of Books; typescript, 6 pp.
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Typescript with autograph corrections and additional manuscript notes for Kermode's book that was published by The University of London, Institute of United States Studies, in 1999. Also included is a letter from the publisher dated December 23, 1998.
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Essay with autograph corrections, carbon typescript, 14 pp.; page publisher's proofs, 7 pp.; and correspondence with Stephen R. Graubard, Editor of Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, dated August 4, 1982. The essay appeared in a special winter issue of Daedalus on books and reading in the twentieth century.
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Carbon typescript with autograph corrections review of Crick's book on Orwell with two additional short reviews at the end. The reviews were published in the London Review of Books.
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Review with autograph corrections, for the London Review of Books, August 5, 1982; typescript, 3 pp.
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Review for the London Review of Books, March 8, 2001; typescript, 6 pp.
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Carbon typescript, for the London Review of Books (1982-1983).
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Carbon typescript with autograph corrections; 4 pp.
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Review published in the London Review of Books, October 19, 1983; carbon typescript, 9 pp.
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Letter from Kermode to the editor of The Times Literary Supplement which appeared on April 23, regarding Harold Bloom's contribution to a symposium on plagiarism; carbon copy typescript, 1p.
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Carbon typescript for Reader's Report, 1984; 3 pp.; with manuscript notes, 6 pp; and a letter from Lindsay Waters, editor at the Harvard University Press.
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Review published in the Guardian; carbon typescript, 7 pp.
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Review with autograph corrections published in the Guardian, November 20, 1973; carbon typescript, 3 pp.
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Review published in the London Review of Books, December 3, 1980; carbon typescript, 7 pp.
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Granada TV broadcast, April 15, 1981; carbon typescript, 4 pp.
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Review for the New York Review of Books, 1973, carbon typescript, 9 pp.; and correspondence with Robert Silvers of the Review.
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Carbon typescript of a review for the Guardian.
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Review for The New Republic, June 9, 1982; carbon typescript, 7 pp.
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Typescript, 10 pp.
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Review for the Guardian; typescript, 4 pp.
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Carbon typescript with autograph corrections of a review for four books published in the London Review of Books, October 20, 1982.
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Review for the London Review of Books, April 15, 1981; carbon typescript, 10 pp.
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Two reviews; typescript, 8 pp.
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Review for the London Review of Books, June 17, 1982; carbon typescript, 4 pp.
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Review for the London Review of Books; typescript, 7 pp.
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Typescript, 3 pp.
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Review published in the Guardian, December 3, 1980; carbon typescript, 3 pp.
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Review of a chapter in M. A. R. Habib's book A History of Literary Criticism; typescript, 48 pp.
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Typescript; 4 pp.
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Typescript; 4 pp.
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Review for Theology, March 1985; typescript, 3 pp.
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Review for the New York Review of Books; 13 pp. Also included is an autograph note from Kermode to send a fax to R. B. Silvers at the Review, dated September 19, 1996.
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Review for the London Review of Books, February 22, 2001; typescript, 11 pp.
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Essay published in The Yale Review; publisher's proofs, 11 pp.
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Review of three books by Milne: Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979-1981; A Mingled Measure: Diaries 1953-1972; and Ancient as the Hills: Diaries 1973-4, typescript, 10 pp., for the London Review of Books, November 30, 2000.
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Typescript, 4 pp.; manuscript notes, 3 pp.; and 1 additional typed page for the London Review of Books.
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Typescript, 3 pp.
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Review for the London Review of Books; carbon typescript, 7 pp.
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Pages 8-11 of a review published in the New York Times Book Review, April 12, 2001.
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Reviews published November 19, 1980 for the London Review of Books: Martin's Tennyson: The Unique Heart and Gray's Thro' the Vision of the Night; carbon typescript, 12 pp.
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Review for the London Review of Books, October 4, 2001; typescript, 8 pp.
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Review for the Guardian, October 8, 1981; carbon typescript, 2 pp.
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Original typescript with autograph corrections; 4 pp.
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Review for the Guardian, June, 1980; carbon typescript, 3 pp.
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Review for the Guardian, June, 1980; carbon typescript, 3 pp.
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Review of Ideas of Christianity in Three Plays of T. S. Eliot; typescript, 5 pp.
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Two reviews: The Movement: English Poetry and Fiction of the 1950s and The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse, 1945-1950, published in the London Review of Books; carbon typescript, 9 pp.
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Typescript, 4 pp.
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Typescript with autograph corrections, 3 pp.
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Typescript with autograph corrections, 8 pp.
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Essay by Kermode for Stephen Spender's D. H. Lawrence: Novelist, Poet, Prophet (1973). The book was published by Weinfeld & Nicolson, London. Also included is correspondence with the publisher regarding the contract between them and Kermode for the essay.
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Carbon typescript of a review published in Theology, in May, 1981; 4 pp.
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Two typescript copies, one 12 pp., and one is 13 pp. published in the London Review of Books, May 23, 2002; and a photocopy of the printed review.
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Two reviews: The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Image of that Horror, published in Renaissance Studies; typescript, 4 pp.
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Signed proof copy with an autograph letter signed from Petersen thanking Kermode for his responses; 2 pp. Also included is a final typescript of a genre paper published in Semeia in 1974, sent to Kermode to read.
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Typescript with an additional three pages of manuscript notes; 7 pp.
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Essay that was published in Salmagundi; typescript, 10 pp.
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Original draft essay with some manuscript notes; typescript, 15 pp.
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Two copies of a biography of I. A. Richards which appeared in the Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, October 1986. One copy is 8 pp., carbon typescript with autograph corrections and the second is a 5 pp. original typescript with many autograph corrections and annotations.
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Original typescript, 10 pp., and publisher's proofs with manuscript notes by "Bob" which appeared in the New York Review of Books; 6 pp.
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Review published in the London Review of Books; typescript, 12 pp.
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Review published in The New Republic; typescript, 9 pp.; together with a typed letter from Kermode to fax the reviews to Leon Wieseltier at the The New Republic, dated February 22, 2000.
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Review (incomplete) published in The New Republic, August 1996; 1 p.
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Review of two books The Arts and the People and Giving it Away: Memoirs of an Uncivil Servant published in the The New Republic, December 1986; original typescript, 6 pp.
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Carbon typescript with autograph corrections; 13 pp.
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Copy of reply by Stead to a review of his book Pound, Yates, Eliot and the Modernist Movement by Kermode which was published in the London Review of Books, June 4, 1986. Also included is a copy of a letter sent by Kermode to the editor of the London Review of Books, dated June 9, 1986 regarding Stead's reply.
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Typescript, 13 pp.
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Miscellaneous typescript pages of a review which appeared in the London Review of Books, January 22.
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Review published in the Guardian, on October 24; typescript, 2 pp.
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Two reviews: Frederic Harrison: The Vocations of a Positivist and Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian. The reviews appeared in the London Review of Books; typescript with autograph corrections, 14 pp.
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Review published in the London Review of Books, June 19, 1980; carbon typescript with autograph corrections, 5 pp.
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Carbon typescript, 3 pp.
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Essay, typescript, 5 pp.
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Essay, carbon typescript, which appeared in Collins House Magazine; 2 pp.
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Review of a book with an introduction by Leon Edel which was published in the Guardian, in October, 1986; typescript, 2 pp.
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Review published in the New York Times Book Review; typescript, 5 pp.
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This subseries includes transcripts of lectures given by Kermode at colleges and other institutions. They are mainly word-processed or typewritten documents, with autograph corrections and annotations. Also included is correspondence related to the lectures.
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order by lecture title or by the location where it was delivered.
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Miscellaneous typescripts with autograph corrections, 12 pp.
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Lecture given at the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; typescript with autograph corrections, l26 pp.
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Typescript, 18 pp.
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Three draft typescript copies with autograph corrections. Two of the copies are 18 pp., and the third is 20 pp. The lecture was given at Hulme (England).
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Irvine (California) lectures, being the first version of Forms of Attention; carbon typescript, 25 pp.
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Drafts for the History and Value Lectures given by Kermode at Oxford University and lectures from University College, London. The drafts are in several stages of revision, and the folders are organized listing The Clarendon Lectures followed by The Northcliffe lectures. The lectures were published in 1988 as Kermode's book History and Value: The Clarendon and Northcliffe Lectures, 1987.
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Two manuscript drafts with many autograph corrections and annotations; 29 pp. and 36 pp.
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Manuscript drafts with autograph corrections; 36 pp. and 31 pp.
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Draft of the lecture with numerous autograph corrections and annotations, typescript, 30 pp.; draft copy of the same with a few autograph corrections, typescript, 29 pp.; essay titled Fragments and Ruins, 28 pp. plus 2 additional typed pp.
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Typescript with autograph corrections, 23 pp.
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Original typescript with autograph corrections, 2 pp.
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Original typescript with autograph corrections, dated February 1, 1979, 3 pp.
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Lecture at Queen's University (Belfast); original typescript with autograph corrections, 37 pp.
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Drafts of the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Berkley (California), given in November 2001; lectures in response to Kermode by John Guillory, Geoffrey Hartman, and Carey Perloff; correspondence related to the lectures; and Kermode's visit to the University of California, Berkley.
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Several typescript drafts with autograph corrections.
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Typescript of lecture in response to Kermode's Tanner Lectures.
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Typescript of lecture in response to Kermode's Tanner Lectures.
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Typescript of lecture in response to Kermode's Tanner Lectures.
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Correspondence and publication agreement regarding the Tanner Lectures, and Kermode's visit to Berkley.
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Lecture given at the University of Chicago and later published in Critical Inquiry; typescript with autograph corrections, 24 pp.
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Lecture in memory of Irving Howe. Includes several typescript draft copies with autograph corrections and a typed letter signed, from Kermode to "Dear Morris" dated June 29, 2000 accompanying one of the copies.
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Typescript draft with autograph corrections and manuscript notes of the The Robin Orr Lecture, Cambridge University, February 6, 2002.
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Essays by Kermode for a talk at the British Library; several typed draft copies with autograph corrections.
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Typescript with autograph corrections and school program of a lecture given at the W. B. Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland, on August 7, 1998.
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This subseries includes interviews, typescripts, drafts, transcripts, or photocopies of Kermode interviews with different people, primarily for the BBC
Folders are arranged in chronological order.
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Typescript with autograph corrections for a BBC broadcast produced by Gilbert Phelps and prerecorded on October 1, 1952; 8 pp.
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Transcript of a BBC broadcast, May 25, 1955.
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Transcript with autograph notes of a broadcast by Kermode and Ian Fletcher; together with Lord Herbert and the Poetry of Platonism. Also included are several pages of manuscript notes by Kermode for the BBC broadcast, June 19, 1955.
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Typescript drafts with autograph corrections, and a letter from the series producer, D. S Carne-Ross, dated January 9, 1956, listing changes that need to be made to the broadcast.
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Two copies each of the BBC transcript of the broadcasts transmitted on October 27 and November 3, 1956, respectively.
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Transcript of a BBC broadcast recorded March 6, 1957; 9 pp.
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Transcript of a BBC broadcast transmitted December 29, 1957; two copies, one with pencil drawings, 7 pp.
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Transcript with autograph corrections of a BBC broadcast transmitted December 8, 1958; 13 pp. Also included is an autograph note signed by D. S. Carne-Ross.
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Transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 2, 1959 for a BBC; 22 pp.
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This is a series of telediphone interviews between Kermode and several novelists which was transmitted by the BBC Folders also include Kermode's introduction to the series. The series was produced by D. S. Carne-Ross.
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Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated Septembermber 28, 1961; two copies, 7 pp.
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Transcript of a telediphone recording, one with edits and corrections, dated September 29, 1961; two copies, 12 pp each; and 1 typed page headed "Link Compton Burnett to Sillitoe".
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Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated September 29, 1961; two copies, 11 pp. each.
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Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated October 3, 1961; two copies, 10 pp. each; and one typewritten page titled "Link Wilson and Compton Burnett".
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Transcript of a telediphone recording, one copy with edits and corrections, dated October 4, 1961; two copies, 13 pp. each; and 2 typewritten pp. one is headed "Link Snow to Wain" and the other "Link Sillitoe and Snow".
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Transcript of a telediphone recording, one with edits and corrections, dated October 27, 1961; two copies, 7 pp. each; and 1 typed page headed "Link Murdoch and Greene".
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Transcript of a telediphone recording dated November 11, 1961; 9 pp.
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Transcript of a telediphone recording, one with edits and corrections, dated November 11, 1961; two copies, 8 pp. each; and 1 typed page headed "Link Wain to Spark".
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Carbon typescript of Kermode's introduction to the series; 3 pp.
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Includes original BBC transcripts of interviews by Kermode for a series of four broadcasts, each with a different title and three different interviewees. Also included are Kermode's final drafts for the interviews, correspondence between Kermode and the interviewees, or the BBC and the interviewees, discussing ideas prior to the talks. The series was produced by Helen Arbuthnot.
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Programme 1. Introduction and original transcripts of interviews of Kermode and Harold Rosenberg, Ernst Gombrich, and Jacques Barzun. The program was transmitted October 30, 1963.
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Source interview for Tradition and Creation. Includes a draft with autograph corrections and two copies of a transcript of a telediphone interview recorded April 25, 1963.
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Source interview for Tradition and Creation. Includes a draft and three copies of a transcript of a telediphone interview recorded April 26, 1963.
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Source interview for Tradition and Creation. Included are three copies of a transcript, a draft, and one page of manuscript notes of a telediphone interview, recorded May 10, 1963.
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Programme 2. Transcripts of a talk between Frank Kermode and Deryck Cooke, Stephen Spender, Donald Davie, and M. I. Finley. The program was transmitted November 6, 1963.
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Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft and transcript of a telediphone interview recorded June 6, 1963.
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Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and three copies of a transcript of a telediphone recording dated May 10, 1963.
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Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft and a transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 5, 1963; 9 pp.
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Source interview for The Use of the Past. Includes a draft with autograph corrections and two copies of a telediphone recording dated June 5, 1963; 13 pp.
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Programme 3. Original transcripts and draft with autograph corrections of a talk between Frank Kermode and H. W. R. Wade, Austin Farrer, A. B. Pippard, and J. M. Cameron. The program was transmitted November 15, 1963. (The source interview with Farrer is absent).
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Source interview for Ceremonial Survival --. Includes a draft and a 10 p. transcript of a telediphone interview recorded June 13, 1963.
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Source interview for Ceremonial Survival. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone interview recorded June 6, 1963.
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Source interview for Ceremonial Survival. Includes a draft with autograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone interview recorded in May 1963.
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Original transcripts and draft with autograph corrections of a talk between Frank Kermode and Max Gluckman, John Strachey, and H. R. Trevor Roper; undated.
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Source interview for Programme 4. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 17, 1963.
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Source interview for Programme 4. Includes a draft with holograph corrections and transcript of a telediphone recording dated June 26, 1963.
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Source interview for Programme 4. Includes a typescript draft of a telediphone recording, undated.
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Includes notes for the Tradition series of programs which include the introduction, notes on publicity and other typed or manuscript notes, and autograph notes by Helen Arbuthnot. Also included is a transcript of a telediphone recording between Michael Elliott and John Powell.
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Includes correspondence regarding the Tradition between either Kermode and the interviewees or the BBC and the interviewees discussing ideas prior to the telephone interviews.
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Draft scheme for the program and correspondence with the Producer of the Talks Department at the BBC
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This is a series of radio interviews and talks by Kermode. Included is the transcript of the interview with Dr. Waddington recorded September 18; and publisher's proofs of essays.
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Radio transmission which was broadcast on December 14; draft.
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Photocopy of a draft for a radio transmission which was broadcast November 3. Also included is correspondence regarding or in response to the broadcast.
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Camera script for a transmission on March 21 discussed by Kermode; two copies.
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Transcript of a program dialogue for an anniversary feature on D. H. Lawrence, dated February 20; 8 pp.; and related correspondence.
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Analyzing the Lord's Prayer, by Kermode, produced by the Rev. Hubert Hoskins for the BBC; transcript, dated March 18, 7 pp., and related correspondence.
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Film typescript dated September 14, 1982; 19 pp.; together with the original typescript, carbon typescript, notes and correspondence.
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Carbon typescript outlining Kermode's personal musical tastes, with autograph corrections; 5 pp.
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Open University broadcast, carbon typescript with autograph corrections; 9 pp.
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Original typescript with autograph corrections, and carbon typescript of a BBC Overseas Service broadcast.
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This series primarily consists of correspondence sent to Frank Kermode, and occasionally manuscripts, typescripts, poems, and some printed material. In addition, there are three boxes of correspondence from Frank Kermode to Anita Kermode, along with five folders of miscellaneous and unidentified correspondence to Kermode.
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order by last name. The three boxes of correspondence from Frank Kermode to Anita Kermode are arranged by year, as are the five folders of miscellaneous and unidentified correspondence, with the undated correspondence at the end (box 25). Correspondence from Series 7 has been integrated into pre-existing folders alphabetically by name, with the remaining folders by name filed in box 26.
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Autograph letters signed, typed letters signed, typed poems, postcards, and one printed pamphlet.
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Correspondence and an unattributed essay on Auden; 15 pp.
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Includes ALsS, TLsS, signed note cards, and poetry.
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Includes one post-card from Chichita dated Rome, March 1, 1997; and a typescript from The Road to San Giovanni by Italo Calvino; 2 pp.; undated.
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Additional correspondence is located in Subseries 7C with the Millenium Library Trust project files.
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TLsS, ALsS, ACsS, and a typed manuscript with autograph corrections titled "The One and the Many: A Literary Reading of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso".
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ALS, two TLsS, a post-card, a greeting card with a printed poem by Connor titled "Difficult Days"; and two typed poems, one is titled "Reminiscences Remembered" and the other "Guida Farm in January".
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ALS from David Cornwell who wrote under the pseudonym John le Carré.
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Three ALsS, and one TLS.
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TLS dated May 23, 1963 regarding the radio broadcast Tradition.
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TLS dated April 30, and Eller's typed presentation of the Warren-Brooks Award to Kermode for Shakespeare's Language.
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Two ALsS, six TLsS, two copies of letters, and an offprint inscribed by Empson to Kermode dated 1972; presentation copy.
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Two ALsS, two TLsS, and copies of three TLs from Kermode.
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Ten TLsS (one missing first page, one missing lower half of page), one TL, seven ALsS, a copy of a poem titled "A Ballade of the 1980s addressed to Simon Wilson, Esq. on his fortieth birthday" with holograph corrections, and a TN containing the poem "Herodia's Daughter" by Anne Killigrew (1660-1685) with comments presumed to be by Fletcher.
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One TLS.
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Six ALsS.
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Correspondence and a typescript copy of Godley's Saving Masud Khan.
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Fourteen TLsS, eight ALsS by from Golding, one ANS, and one TLS from Golding's daughter, Judy Carver.
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Three TLsS, and a typescript of an essay titled "Murder, Frenzy and Madness: Khan Reads Dostoevsky"; 8 pp.
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TLS to Johnson at Houghton Mifflin Co. by Kermode.
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Two ALsS and eight typed poems by Shirley Kaufman; one ALS and several TLsS by Kaufman's husband, Bill Daleski; one joint e-mail.
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Letters from Anita Van Vactor to her (former) husband, Frank Kermode.
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Four TLsS, one ACS, a typed brief biography, and several poems.
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Nine ACsS, two ALsS, one TLS, two poems, and a photocopy of a Benefit invitation inscribed by Koch to Kermode.
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ALS and TLS with a copy of and article from an Encounter symposium titled "Going to Europe".
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Two TLsS , one AMS and one TLsS of a Preface to Anthony Rossiter's The Golden Chain.
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Thirteen TLsS, six ALsS, seven ANsS, one ACS, and a typescript titled "Meetings and Non-Meetings"; 12 pp.
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ALS dated April 3, 2002; and typescript of the introduction to the book Shelly edited by Zachary Leader and Michael O'Neill; 28 pp.
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Signed agreement between Kermode and John Hollander, as editors, and Oxford University Press to act as publishers of the The Major Authors Edition of the Oxford Anthology of English Literature. The agreement is dated November 18, 1974. Please refer to Subseries 7B for additional Oxford University Press editorial correspondence.
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ALS and a typed "Report on the Current Difficulties in the English Department of Bedford/Royal Holloway College".
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Please refer to Subseries 7B for additional Farrar, Straus & Giroux editorial correspondence.
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Please refer to Subseries 7B for additional editorial correspondence.
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Fourteen ALsS, fourteen TLsS, and six autographed postcards and greeting cards, the majority of which were sent from Italy.
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Includes thirty six ALsS, five TLsS, two ACsS, and a typewritten poem dated 1992 titled "Worldsworth [sic]".
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Twenty-six ALsS; twenty-nine TLsS; five ACsS and TCsS; two printed greeting cards; one ALS from Helen Tate to Kermode, undated; and one TLS from Allen Tate to Mrs. Ann Gerard at Encounter, dated November 29, 1966.
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Includes letters by Kermode to Trapp that were returned to Kermode by Trapp's wife, Elayne, after her husband's death in 2005.
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Six ALsS, thirteen TLsS, and one ACS.
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File of ALsS and TLsS related to Kermode's appointments to King's College, University of Durham (1947), the University of Reading (1949), and the John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester (1957). Includes congratulatory letters from Kermode's friends and academic colleagues.
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Fourteen TLsS, one ACS, one TCS, and a photocopy of The Updike Family News.
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Twenty-seven ALsS, sixteen TLsS, and eleven ACsS.
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Thirteen TLsS, a printed pamphlet about Philosophy and Literature at The University of Warwick, and a schedule for a visit by Kermode to the University of Warwick.
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Anita Van Vactor Kermode was the second wife of Frank Kermode.
Physical Description3 boxes
Consists of ALsS, TLsS, ACsS, and typed poems, including fan mail.
Physical Description5 folders
This series includes correspondence primarily regarding the CIA scandal; subject files including press releases; Stephen Spender's controversial biography; essays, articles, and proof pages for publications related to the Encounter scandal; newspaper clippings; and photocopies of published articles.
The series is organized into five subseries: A. Correspondence, B. Subject Files, C. Stephen Spender's "Biography", D. Manuscript Notes, E. Newspaper Clippings.
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The correspondence in this series revolves around the period when Kermode was co-editor of Encounter magazine, and the subsequent scandal that the CIA provided funding for it.
Folders are arranged in alphabetical order
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Five ALsS, and a copy of a memo regarding Encounter, dated April 15, 1967.
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Eighteen ALsS; four TLsS; a presentation carbon copy to Kermode of a typed poem by Spender to Kermode titled Four Sketches for Herbert Read, dated November 30, 1968; copies of letters regarding forming a new magazine; a copy of a letter sent to Sam Sylvester regarding Spender's controversial biography Stephen Spender - A Portrait with Background, dated August 18, 1992; photocopy of a statement signed by Kermode, Spender, and Nigel Dennis as co-editors for Encounter refusing to apply for a grant from the Whitney Foundation; photocopies of articles about Spender; and newspaper clippings regarding Encounter scandal.
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Five ALsS including a letter with a photocopy of Hugh David's biography of Stephen Spender Stephen Spender - A Portrait with Background, with outraged marginal notes by Spender; a photocopy of a letter dated 1976, 14 pp. together with a photocopy of Kermode's 5 p. typed reply; photocopies of letters from Kermode to Spender regarding the Encounter scandal dating from May 1966 and February 1967; and three ACsS.
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Copy of a TL from Trilling to William Phillips of the Partisan Review dated October 14, which she sent to Kermode with her autograph notes.
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This series includes the statements and press releases made by Kermode and Spender related to the C.I.A. funding of the International Association for Cultural Freedom.
Folders are arranged in chronological order.
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Five carbon copies, and several draft copies of a typed autograph statement, dated April 1967, made by Kermode to the Trustees regarding the C.I.A. funding of Encounter, asking them to accept his resignation as co-editor. Also included is a typewritten, un addressed, letter, dated May 1966, by Kermode asking for an explanation of the reasons behind the C.I.A. funding.
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Three typed draft copies, one with autograph corrections, of Spender's statement to the Trustees of Encounter.
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Photocopy, 2 pp.; and a Draft Statement, with autograph corrections, 2 pp. Also included is a photocopy of the Editorial Note by the editors of Encounter, 2 pp.; a photocopy of a Financial Memorandum dated April 19, 1967; and an Agenda for a Meeting of Encounter Trustees and Editors dated April 21, 1967.
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Kermode's essay won the 1939 Oliver Elton Prize at the University of Liverpool.
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The original folder, titled "Early Articles & Pieces," identified this as being by Kermode.
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The original folder, titled "Early Articles & Pieces," included this TMs that is missing its ending.
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Note on original folder: "Essays in Criticism, July 1952."
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Includes the Afterword for the New American Library edition (1964) and an untitled essay on George Eliot ca. 1958.
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Includes ALS by J. B. Trapp; see also related subject file folder in Subseries 7C.
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By the General Assembly of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, dated October 2, 1967, regarding its re-organization, and renaming itself the International Association For Cultural Freedom. Also included is a typed copy of the new adopted Statutes, 3 pp., and biographies two members of the Council, Pierre Emmanuel, and Shepard Stone, plus a list of names of the members.
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Organized alphabetically by name.
Complete copy of the final text of Hugh David's controversial biography of Stephen Spender, which Spender and Kermode were able to suppress from publication.
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Photocopy, 300 pp.
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Consists of essays, articles, and proof pages for articles related to the Encounter scandal.
Folders are arranged in chronological order and relevance.
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For the Partisan Review by Kermode, with publisher's corrections.
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Essay by Spender regarding the Encounter events, carbon typescript, 4 pp.
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Photocopy of an article by Alvin C. Kibel with holograph corrections, 22 pp.
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Includes newspaper clippings, and photocopied articles from newspapers and magazines related to Encounter.
Material is arranged in chronological order.
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An issue of the magazine dated January 1961.
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Articles about Kermode and others, about the Encounter scandal, and about the involvement of the C.I.A. in similar operations in other countries.
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Includes photographs meant to be used for illustrations in Kermode's books, as well as personal photographs of Kermode with family and friends.
Photographs for publications, and personal photographs.
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Photographs of Kermode with family and friends
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Includes presentation copies of journals, offprints, and articles; miscellaneous copies of journals and offprints; ephemera; and newspaper clippings, many of which are book reviews by Kermode.
This series is arranged into the following files: Journals and Offprints, Presentation Copies; Journals, Offprints, and College Catalogues; Newpaper Clippings.
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Includes offprints inscribed by the authors and presented to Kermode.
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Includes journals, offprints, printed material, works of others, and ephemera.
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Consists chiefly of newspaper clippings of book reviews by Kermode.
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This series consists primarily of writings by Kermode in the form of published and unpublished manuscripts and typescripts, drafts of his books, reviews, essays, and lectures, as well as notes, correspondence and clippings. Included also are subject files relating to Kermode and two typescripts by Stephen Spender.
The series is organized by author (Kermode followed by Spender) and alphabetically by title or subject.
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Typescript with autograph corrections for a M.I.T. seminar dated 26 April 1978 on the topic of apocalypse, plus notes and other typescript drafts related to this topic.
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2 TLsS to Kermode from Saul Friedlander and Eugene B. Skolnikoff dated in 1980 regarding Kermode's planned contribution to their book that was eventually published under the title Visions of Apocalypse: End or Rebirth? in 1985. There are two typescript versions of Kermode's essay, Apocalypse and the Modern" (undated) with autograph corrections.
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Typescript draft with autograph corrections (photocopy) for a conference dated 2-4 June, 1986, Consultation of Jewish and Christian Scholars at the Institute for Judaeo-Christian Research of the Theological Faculty of Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Introduction to Writers at Work page proofs and TLS dated 8 March 1984 from Viking Penguin Inc.; Preface to a new edition of Wallace Stevens, typescript with autograph corrections; Introduction to The Art of Telling (1983), typescript titled Prologue with autograph corrections; Foreword to an Edmond Wilson anthology, 1984, typescript.
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Four typescript reviews, some with autograph corrections.
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One photograph, correspondence, and magazine and newspaper clippings regarding the case of Dr. Colin MacCabe.
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Book review (photocopy of a proof) and typescript pages from various writings on the subject of the canon. Also includes a TL dated 20 August 1983 (unsigned) to Kermode titled "References on Biblical Canon," a clipping of a published book review published in The New York Review (June 29, 1978), and miscellaneous notes.
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One typescript with autograph corrections, one photocopy of an earlier version, and loose pages from other writings on the topic.
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Typescript draft with autograph corrections.
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Typescript about Eliot with autograph corrections, TLS dated in 1974, correspondence dated 1987 relating to an Eliot film project, photocopy of Kermode's review of three Eliot books published in the New York Times Book Review (March 26, 1972).
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Typescript with autograph corrections (Ernest Jones Lecture, 1982).
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Typescript (incomplete) with autograph corrections on the subject of Caleb Williams.
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Untitled typescript, with autograph corrections, of a talk on the topic of hermeneutics; Typescript with autograph corrections titled On Interpretation and Historicity; Typescript draft regarding Ricoeur on parables; and miscellaneous notes.
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Offprint of an article by Kermode that was published in Raritan, a quarterly review (Spring 1982), pp. 33-49.
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Clippings of two interviews with Kermode.
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Typescript notes with autograph corrections for a lecture on W. H. Auden (Jerusalem, 24 Dec. 1981) and for seminars at Hebrew University (13-27 Dec. 1981).
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Typescript and autograph notes with autograph corrections for lectures on Joseph Conrad's Under Western Eyes, Ford Madox Ford's The Good Soldier, Henry Green's Loving, D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love, and Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust. Also includes a carbon typescript of a book review by Kermode of The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh edited by Michael Davie.
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Carbon typescript (1979) and various clippings (1973-1979).
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Various typescript pages and miscellaneous autograph notes on the topic of Midrash.
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Correspondence between Kermode and Robert Silvers about a specific book review by Kermode, including typescript drafts.
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Typescript photocopy of a lecture with autograph corrections (May 1987, Rome).
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Typescript with autograph corrections.
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Carbon typescript with autograph corrections.
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Typescript with autograph corrections (University of Arizona, April 8, 1978).
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Carbon typescript with autograph corrections.
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Two typescripts with autograph corrections and additions of "The Behavior of Clay; or the Brutus of Michelangelo"; Typescript, untitled: "Well, the road turns and a sharp devil lies who lives / In my (decaying) teeth..."; Typescript titled "Indian Ocean – Aircraft Returning at Sunset"; Autograph manuscript of "Cabaret Song"; Typescript with autograph corrections of "Seven Variations on a Theme of John Donne"; Typescripts of five separate poems clipped together and dated 1945; Typescript, untitled, with autograph corrections: "The smell of blood in the heat of battle... "; Typescript of two poems with autograph corrections: titled "Love and Crossword Puzzles" on one side and "Dying" on the other.
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Typescript with autograph corrections.
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Typescript (photocopy) with autograph corrections.
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Carbon typescript and a typescript (photocopy) excerpt.
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Three typescripts (provisional text) of the Trilling Memorial lecture, one complete, with autograph corrections.
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Typescript with autograph corrections.
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Various typescripts of untitled lectures and miscellaneous pages with autograph corrections.
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Various untitled writings by Kermode.
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Typescript photocopy of an essay draft by Stephen Spender.
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Typescript photocopy of a play by Stephen Spender that includes a TLS (copy) to Christopher Isherwood.
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This series consists of the remaining archive of Kermode, including correspondence, writings, documents, ephemera, and audiovisual materials.
The series is organized into four subseries: 7A. Correspondence; 7B. Writings; 7C. Miscellaneous Subject Files; and 7D. Audio-Visual Materials.
Physical Description17 boxes
This subseries consists of correspondence that has been sent to Kermode by friends, academic colleagues, and individuals and firms involved in his publishing his writings.
Some correspondence has been integrated into pre-existing folders by the sender's name in Series 2; the rest has been organized in archival boxes alphabetically under General Correspondence by letter and/or last name, with a few subject files at the end. The publishing correspondence is organized separately by subject.
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This correspondence file consists of letters between Kermode and those involved in planning and/or attending the May 1961 exhibition on W. B. Yeats, including D. J. Gordon, Richard Ellman, Ian Fletcher, The British Council, the Lord Mayor of Manchester, the representative of the Irish Ambassador, etc.
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This subseries consists of the writings of Kermode divided into the categories of books, essays/lectures, reviews, academic materials and miscellaneous notes/notebooks.
This subseries has been arranged chronologically by publication date, where known.
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Kermode called this work, a bound carbon typescript copy, his first book.
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This is a bound, mimeograph copy of Kermode's University of Liverpool M.A. dissertation.
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Includes correspondence (from Harold Brooks and J.B. Trapp, among others), AMs and TMs notes, sheet music, and galley proofs.
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Includes both AMs and TMs drafts, many with autograph corrections, printed page proofs, and a printed copy of a 2001 epilogue.
Physical Description8 folders
Includes correspondence to Kermode, the editor, and a TMs with autograph corrections of Kermode's Preface.
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Contains 2 TMss with autograph corrections and a Xeroxed proof.
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Includes notes, research, correspondence, and an essay drafts about the dancer, Loie Fuller, a TMs draft with autograph corrections, and printed page proofs of the book.
Physical Description5 folders
Contains a TMs with autograph corrections.
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Includes various drafts, TMss and carbon copies, notes, and galley proofs.
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Includes TMs drafts of the Introduction, with autograph corrections, and related correspondence.
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Many TMss, including some carbons, with autograph corrections and notes, plus early drafts. There is also a copy of the Preface, dated 1999, for the revised edition of the book.
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Contains a TMs with autograph corrections (Fontana Modern Masters series book).
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Includes various TMs drafts with autograph corrections.
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Includes notes and many TMs drafts, with autograph corrections.
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Bound proof with some autograph corrections.
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Bound, uncorrected proof.
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Xerox, unbound copy with some corrections.
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Draft versions with some autograph notes; TLS to Kermode.
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Includes AMs and TMs drafts, some with autograph corrections, and proofs
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Xerox copy of the corrected page proofs and TLS to Kermode.
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Includes a copy of Kermode's essay, "Alvarez on John Donne," later published as a tribute volume titled The mind has mountains: a.alvarez@lxx.
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Includes Xerox and printed drafts with autograph corrections, master proofs, and rough page proofs.
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Includes drafts of "Aspects of Aspects"; "Beethoven, Wagner, Vinteuil"; "Krishna" from Kermode's 2007 Clark Lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge University, on Forster, and some manuscript notes.
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Subjects of these folders include Cowley, Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry, and "Two Lectures on Modern Criticism" (18-25 May, 1949).
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Subjects include Wordsworth, Jacobean Drama, Swift, Arnold, Coleridge, Golding, and Gray.
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Includes Auden, Blake, Browning, Morris, Tennyson, Vaughan, Wordsworth.
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Includes approximately 25 notebooks of varying sizes.
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This subseries includes the writings of people other than Kermode as well as a variety of subject files.
This subseries is arranged by topic.
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No apparent arrangement scheme.
Includes audiocassettes, videotapes, CDs, DVDs featuring Kermode in various programs or graduation ceremonies.
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Notebook from Kermode's time working at Harvard University as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry (1977-78)
No arrangement
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Notes run to around 40 pages with a lengthy passage on the Saul Friedlander seminar (April 17, 1978) detailing the Jewish scholar's thinking about Hiroshima and the application of "millennial imagery" with the need to "imagine nuclear destruction." There are careful reading notes to Colin Roberts' Manuscript Society and Belief and Charles H. Talbert's What is a Gospel. Notes also touch on Ovid, florilegia, Augustan poetry, Shakespeare, Dilthey and Carnac with book lists, phone numbers, and occasional calculations.
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