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Ref No (click to see in context)JI/3/8
TitleNotes - Poetry Post 1870
LevelFile
Datec1947-c1957
Extent1 file
DescriptionPoems and research notes on poets and poems written after 1870, c1947-c1957.
'Yale Poetry Review, No. 7', 1947.
Programme for course 'Education in an Age of Violence' at King's College, Cambridge, August 1953.
Programme of poetry reading for course 'Education in an Age of Violence', 27 August 1953.
Card informing Isaacs of the date of his first lecture on 'Contemporary English Poetry' for 'Summer Vacation Course in English for Foreign Students' at the University of London, 1953.
Timetable for 'Summer Vacation Course in English for Foreign Students' at University of London, 1953.
Timetable for 'Summer Vacation Course in English for Foreign Students' at University of London, 1954.
Card informing Isaacs of the date of his first lecture on 'Contemporary British Poetry' for 'Summer Vacation Course in English for Foreign Students' at the University of London, c1947-c1957
Card informing Isaacs of the date of his first lecture on 'Poetry' for 'Summer Vacation Course in English for Foreign Students' at the University of London, c1947-c1957
Newspaper articles about:
Neurosis entitled 'Your Age? - It's Apocalyptotechnic' from the News Chronicle, 15 September 1950.
Obituary 'Dylan Thomas: 1914-1954' from the Sunday Times, 15 November 1953.
Auden poem entitled 'Poetic Heritage: 129 - from The Shield of Achilles', c1947-c1957
Book review of 'Image and Experience' by Graham Hough entitled 'Private Verse and Public Taste', c1947-c1957

Magazine articles about:
'English Poetry Today' by Louis Macneice from The Listener, 2 September 1948
'Victoriana in Bucks' by Alec Clifton-Taylor from The Listener, 2 September 1948.
Postcard from Teatro Olimpico Palladio in Vicenza, Italy, 3 May 1956.
Letter, with research notes on back, from the Inland Revenue Valuation Officer concerning Isaac's home, 20 Portsea Place, 14 November 1957.

Poems, some highlighted, c1947-c1957:
'Paysage Luxembourgeois' by L Aaronson,
'The Dream' by W H Auden,
'The Turn of a Page' by Robert Graves,
'The Cupboard' by Robert Graves,
'A Frosty Night' by Robert Graves,
'A Fight to the Death' by Robert Graves,
'All Day It Has Rained' by Alun Lewis,
'Do Not Expect Again A Phoenix Hour' by C Day Lewis,
'Parting' by Kathleen Raine,
'Death of a Son' by Jon Silkin,
'I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great' by Stephen Spender,
'The Hand that Signed the Paper' by Dylan Thomas,

Page of book catalogue refering to 'The French Stage in the XVIIth Century' by T E Lawrenson and 'Montaigne - Selected Essays' by Tilley and Boase, c1947-c1957
Access StatusOpen
Persons
CodePerson or Corporate Body Name
DS/UK/1616Thomas; Dylan Marlais (1914-1953); Welsh Poet, Writer
DS/UK/874Auden; Wystan Hugh (1907-1973); Anglo-American poet
DS/UK/1631Hough; Graham Goulden (1908-1990); English Literary Critic, Poet, Professor of English at Cambridge University
DS/UK/1632Aaronson; L (fl. 1917-1948); British Poet
DS/UK/1603Graves; Robert von Ranke (1895-1985); English Poet, Scholar, Translator and Writer of Antiquity
DS/UK/1633Lewis; Alun (1915-1944); Poet
DS/UK/1588Day-Lewis; Cecil (1904-1972); CBE; Anglo-Irish Poet
DS/UK/1634Raine; Kathleen Jessie (1908-2003); CBE; British Poet, Critic, and Scholar
DS/UK/1635Silkin; Jon (1930-1997); British Poet
DS/UK/920Spender; Sir; Stephen Harold (1909-1995); Poet
DS/UK/70Isaacs; Jacob (1896-1973); Professor; Academic and writer.