Skip to main content

Additional papers, lectures, draft essays, unpublished essays and miscellaneous papers, 1955 - 1965

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0269/DCPP/MAS/6

Scope and Contents

Includes: 1. “Pope and Donne” A discussion of Pope’s adaptations of Donne’s Satires, 15 March 1956, 34 handwritten pages (probably delivered as one or more lectures at Exeter University); 2. “An Anthology of English Discursive Prose” compiled by H.A. Mason and W.W. Robson. Booklet containing 91 prose passages with Index (Probably the passages referred to in GBR/0269/DCPP/MAS/3/16); 3. “Poetic Drama.” 28 handwritten pages, undated; 4. 3 typed foolscap documents comprising imaginary conversations between (i) “Ned Softly” and Joseph Addison (3 sheets); (ii) “Pope and Wycherley” (3 sheets); (iii) “Pope and Walsh” (single sheet). (Possibly student handouts, undated); 5. “An Introduction to a Reading of Pope’s Essay on Criticism” 20 handwritten foolscap pages, plus one typewritten foolscap sheet replicating first handwritten pages; 6. “Criticism” 37 handwritten A4 sheets (38 pages of script)., undated; 7. “Andrew Marvell’s Poems” I: Introduction, dated 2 February 1956; II: Marvell’s Love Poems; (III?): Marvell’s Religious Poems. 79 handwritten pages. (Probably course of lectures on Marvell at Exeter University); 8. “Modern Poetry.” 23 handwritten foolscap pages, with the exception that p. 19 consists of a typed copy of “Sequence from Childhood” by Elizabeth Jennings. Undated (Probably a lecture); 9. “An Introduction to Ben Jonson’s Timber. Part I: 39 handwritten pages. II: “Autobiography (Elder Seneca, Apuleius)” handwritten and paginated 11-21; III: “Use for plays, poems, prefaces” handwritten and paginated 23-33. IV: “Coda.” 3 handwritten pages. Undated; 10. “Authority in Literary Criticism.” 29 handwritten pages; 11. “Critical Platitudes.” 17 typed A4 pages. A public lecture (one of series by various speakers). Undated; 12. “Redbrick: The Centre and the Periphery.” A response to the February 1956 number of Twentieth Century on the topic of “Redbrick Universities.” 9 A4 pages, handwritten; 13. “Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory.” 32 handwritten pages in A4. A university lecture or talk. Undated; 14. “The Critical Approach of William Empson” 26 typed foolscap pages. Undated.

Dates

  • Creation: 1955 - 1965

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

Sensitive letters removed to closed file.

Extent

1 file(s)

Arrangement

Catalogued from list provided at time of donation.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

2022-23/044

Repository Details

Part of the Downing College Repository

Contact:
Downing College Archive
Downing College
Cambridge Cambridgeshire CB2 1DQ United Kingdom
+44 (0)1223 762905