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Davies/Box 1-3/Box 1/4.
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- c.1960-1984 (Creation)
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1 folder, paper
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Biographical history
Entered St John's 1928. Jebb Studentship and Le Bas Prize 1931. BA 1931. Author of English Surrealist's manifesto, 1936 and co-curator of Surrealist Exhibition, London 1936. Surrealist prose poem 'Petron' published 1935. Published three novels 1950-60, 'The Papers of Andrew Melmoth'(1960) being the best known. Appointed College Rat Catcher 1967. Concentrated his critical talents on Wordsworth's poetry for last 20 years of his life, becoming a Trustee of Dove Cottage and having 'Wordsworth and the Worth of Words' published posthumously in 1986.
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Negative of a photograph of a painting.
Photocopied pages of book on nature.
Photocopied pages of Reminiscences of Coleridge and Southey.
Fragment of typewritten MS 'Men and Mountains.' 1p.
Typewritten MS 'Wordsworth and the Picturesque.' 2p.
Fragment of typewritten MS on 'utilitarian arrangements' of words. 1p.
Typewritten MS - outline of teaching programme on Wordsworth.
Handwritten and typed notes on word ranking for various poets and writers