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Sheet music "A Second Dymock Trilogy" composed by Bob May

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September 2008

Includes Elizabeth's Song by Lascelles Abercrombie; The Sun Used to Shine by Edward Thomas; The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

Photocopy of various poems by John Wilton Haines from unknown publication

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(c.2000s)

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes:
The High-Road
The Black Country
Flowers
Late February
To Ladies
Blake
Alchemilla Alpina (The Alpine Lady's Mantle)
Bradley Hill
The Track Through the Forest

Poems "One Man and his Grog" and "Sergeant Bent's Cure" by Maggott

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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Typescript of poem "Words" by Edward Thomas

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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Sheet music for poem "Sound is a Memory" by Sean Street

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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Music by Amanda Ballard. Dedicated "for Bob May and the Friends of the Dymock Poets"

Poems by John Drinkwater put to music by Colin Decio for "Cotswold Songs"

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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Poems taken from "Tides" published in 1917
Old Crow
Day
May Garden
The Lechers
Plough
Cotswold Love
Venus in Arden
A Sabbath Day in five watches

Poems by Peter Wyton

DP/BD/9/7
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c.2000s

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Includes letter to Barbara Davis accompanying the poems Fair Rosamund; A Right Evil Place to Approach; On Reading 'To God' by Ivor Gurney; Captain Pury's Lighthouse; Chagall in Tudeley; The Dauber's Tale

Printout of poems by John Drinkwater annotated "FDP AGM? Oct 2002"

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c.2002

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

The Midlands; The Patriot; The Cotswold Farmers; Symbols; The Fires of God; Memory

Rap version of the poem Adlestrop by Edward Thomas, written by Bill Greenwell

DP/BD/9/9
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2007

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Photocopy of article "A Talk to Mothers" by Helen Thomas in "Women's Liberal Federation News"

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(c.1980s) 1 April 1914

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "A Countrywoman's Notes" by Eiluned Lewis

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27 November 1969

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Country Life". Refers to Edward Thomas's poem "November" and the planned memorial window at Eastbury church

Newspaper article "A Georgian for our time" by Naomi Lewis

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1969

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Review of "Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley" edited by R G Thomas

Article "A Subordinated Poet" by Geoffrey Grigson

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26 March - 9 April 1970

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Country Life. Features review of "Edward Thomas: A Critical Biography" by William Cooke

Article "Edward Thomas: A Memorial Tribute"

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c.1971

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Author and publication unknown. Includes description of the ceremony unveiling the memorial window at Eastbury church and insights into the relationship between Helen and Edward Thomas. Includes handwritten note by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Photocopy of newspaper article "His own enemy" by P J Kavanagh

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(c.1980s) 10 March 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Review of "Edward Thomas on the Countryside" by Roland Gant

Title of "UpFront" from the Observer Magazine

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20 November 1977

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Subtitle "Keeping you in touch with what's new, what's happening, what's coming up - and whatever catches our fancy" underlined with note by Edward Eastaway Thomas "Just what ET is not"

Extract "Edward Thomas" taken from "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R G Thomas

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Spring 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Oxford University Press publication "The Periodical"

Article "A Window for Edward Thomas"

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5 January 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

With details of the subscription appeal for the Edward Thomas memorial window at Steep

Article "The Centenary of Edward Thomas" by John Arlott

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February 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in Hampshire County Magazine

Photocopy of newspaper article "Edward Thomas, was he a war poet?" by Richard Gates

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(c.1980s) 25 February 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Western Mail, Cardiff

Photocopy of Rupert Brooke obituary written by Edward Thomas in "The English Review"

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(c.1980s) June 1915

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Article "Edward Thomas, March 1878 - April 1917"

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March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in British Book News, author unknown. Refers to the Whittington Press publication "The Diary of Edward Thomas" published in 1977

Photocopy of newspaper article "Just out of focus" by Geoffrey Grigson

DP/ET/1/21
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9 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Review of "Edward Thomas: a poet for his country" by Jan Marsh

Newspaper article "Excellent and melancholic poet" by Patric Dickinson

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9 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country" by Jan Marsh

Newspaper article on the Edward Thomas centenary

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9 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in "Herald", a South-West London newspaper. Includes photograph of visit by Myfanwy Thomas and Edward Eastaway Thomas to St Paul's School

Photocopy of newspaper article "Poet who spoke plain" by David Wright

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(c.1980s) 12 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Sunday Telegraph. Review of "Edward Thomas" by Jan Marsh

Photocopy of newspaper article "Natural man" by Rachel Billington

DP/ET/1/25
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(c.1980s) March1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Financial Times. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Poet for his Country" by Jan Marsh

Photocopy of letter from Myfanwy Thomas published in the Radio Times

DP/ET/1/26
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(c.1980s) 18 March 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Discusses discrepancy over the definition of Edward Thomas as a "Georgian" poet. Includes handwritten paragraph [crossed out] on reverse by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Newspaper article "Passion for nature" by Glyn Hughes

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17 September 1978

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Publication unknown. Discusses Richard Jefferies with reference to Edward Thomas

Photocopy of newspaper article "Poetic Genius" by Norman Nicholson

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(c.1980s) 2 March 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Church Times. Review of "The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas" edited by R G Thomas. Includes pencil annotation by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Photocopy of article "Lessons in honesty" by Donald Davie

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(c.1980s) 23 November 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement. Includes handwritten note by Edward Eastaway Thomas

Newspaper obituary of Ralph Hodgson written by Helen Thomas

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c.1962

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published letter "The England of Edward Thomas" by Kim Taplin

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21 December 1979

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement. Written in response to Donald Davie's article "Lessons in honesty"

Published letter "Edward Thomas" by Roy Fuller

DP/ET/1/31
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11 January 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement in response to article by Donald Davie and letter from Kim Taplin

Published letters under heading "Edward Thomas" by Donald Davie, Humphrey Clucas and John Lucas

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1 February 1980

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement. Ongoing letters concerning the original article by Donald Davie and replies from Kim Taplin and Roy Fuller

Newspaper article "It Rains by Edward Thomas" by Kingsley Amis

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7 August 1984

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Daily Mirror

Newspaper article "A walk on the mild side" by Richard Holmes

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27 August 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Probably published in The Times. Subtitle "Richard Holmes takes a leisurely stroll along literature's highways and byways, from Chaucer's pilgrims to Hazlitt and today's Pennine penmen". With reference to Edward Thomas's poem "Roads"

Newspaper article "Our true Thomas" by Vernon Scannell

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3 October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Guardian. Review of "Edward Thomas, A Portrait" by R George Thomas

Newspaper article "Devotional Transfiguration" by Richard Harries

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August 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Possibly published in The Guardian. Discusses Edward Thomas's religion and poem "The Glory"

Newspaper article "Love letters, nature notes, and war poems" by Fiona MacCarthy

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3 October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times. Subtitle "Fiona MacCarthy on the strange life of a poet who loved and wrote not wisely but too well and died young". Includes a review of "Edward Thomas: A Portrait" by R George Thomas

Article on the launch of "Edward Thomas: A Portrait" by R George Thomas at the Selborne Bookshop

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12 October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Bookseller. Includes photograph of Richard Emeny, Ken White, R George Thomas, Myfanwy Thomas and Misao Iida at the launch

Newspaper article "The hack who turned poet" by David Wright

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20 October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Telegraph. Review of "Edward Thomas: A Portrait" by R George Thomas

Newspaper article "Farewell to Adelstrop" written "from a correspondent"

DP/ET/1/4
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5 April 1963

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Times at the time of Dr Beeching's railway cuts

Newspaper article "A Poet Prepares" by Roland Gant

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25 October 1985

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Daily Telegraph. Review of "Edward Thomas: a Portrait" by R George Thomas

Newspaper article on the sale of Edward Thomas's copy of "The Women of Shakespeare"

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28 March 1986

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement

Published letter "Edward Thomas" by Katherine Bucknell

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12 June 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Times Literary Supplement. A response to Stan Smith's response to Katherine Bucknell's article on his work "Edward Thomas"

Photocopy of article "Salute to the Soldier Poets" by Stephen Garnett

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(c.1980s) Spring 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in This England. Includes biographical details of Edward Thomas

Photocopy of newspaper article by Valerie Grove on Myfanwy Thomas's account of the delivery of the news her father had died

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(c.1980s) 12 April 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in The Sunday Times. Includes annotations and note from Sylvia Lewin "Of course I forgot to give you this. Don't acknowledge"

Photocopy of article "Hampshire Notebook" detailing dedication of memorial to Edward Thomas on the Shoulder of Mutton above Steep on 2 October 1937

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(c.1980s) 1987

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Hampshire Chronicle. Includes details of commemorative ceremony 50 years later dedicating a plaque to the memory of Rowland Watson and his wife Cherry

Photocopy of article "Edward Thomas in Texas" by Kenneth Millard

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(c.1988) 1988

Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection

Published in the Oxford Magazine. Refers to the collections at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin

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