- DP/A/2/1
- File
- 16 June 1995
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
311 results with digital objects Show results with digital objects
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre Advisory Group meetings
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
Meeting minutes for the group plus related documents. Includes paper "The Cyder Press: A Proposal" December 1998
Part of Dymock Poets Special Collection
This series covers the internal administration of the collection, including minutes of the Dymock Poets Archive and Study Centre Advisory Group, events, publicity and the Occasional Papers Series
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
Dymock Poets Special Collection
On the north-west borders of Gloucestershire, in the years immediately prior to the outbreak of the First World War, a literary community was formed which came to represent a significant development in the modern poetic tradition. By August 1914, the poet and playwright Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson, and the American poet Robert Frost had all taken up residence in and around the village of Dymock. Inspired by the beauty of their surroundings and encouraged by a succession of visitors, including Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Edward Thomas and Eleanor Farjeon, a new literary currency was established during that final summer before the outbreak of war.
Their writings represented a movement away from the prevailing literary idiom, regarded by many as rhetorically ornate and emotionally restricted. Instead the Dymock Poets sought inspiration in natural settings and everyday experiences. In this, and their desire for a more direct, authentic register, their work can be located within the traditions of Wordsworth and the principles set out in Lyrical Ballads.
It was a productive time for all concerned, with four issues of a periodical, New Numbers, being written and printed as a true cottage industry. This period was also to see the emergence of Edward Thomas as a gifted and prolific writer of verse and to lead to Robert Frost’s formation of a new poetic philosophy.
This brief idyll was to prove short lived. Within three years both Brooke and Thomas were dead, Frost had returned to North America, and Abercrombie, Drinkwater and Gibson were involved in war work. Their writings, however, continue to form an important literary legacy to this day.
The institution has actively sought to collect material from various sources that centres on the Dymock Poets (Edward Thomas, Robert Frost, Wilfrid Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater, Rupert Brooke) and related authors such as Eleanor Farjeon. Items are donated or deposited by a wide range of people, including some of the families of the poets. Material has also been deposited by both The Edward Thomas Fellowship and Friends of the Dymock Poets regarding the administration of both societies.
The collection is comprised of original paper-based documents, monographs, journals, articles, photographic material and multi-media. Secondary-source material is catalogued on the University’s library catalogue https://glos.on.worldcat.org/search?sortKey=LIBRARY&databaseList=1080%2C2375%2C3384%2C2272%2C251%2C197%2C1855%2C199%2C1996%2C1875%2C2007%2C233%2C950%2C3313%2C2585%2C217%2C239%2C638%2C2507%2C1715%2C2462%2C2262%2C1271%2C283%2C285%2C143%2C1842%2C2897%2C1621%2C245%2C203%2C3909&queryString=B8%3AGloucestershire&changedFacet=language&overrideStickyFacetDefault=&clusterResults=on&subscope=wz%3A18387%3A%3Azs%3A37348
Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
David Elyan Special Collection
"The Dubliner" and "Dublin" publications
James Elroy Flecker publications - 37 books, including an unpublished masters thesis, by and about the Cheltenham poet
Whittington Press ephemera
Elyan, David
Needlework specimen book belonging to Nellie Knight
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
With patterns and fabric attached. Also paper entitled “First lesson in Herring boning”
Knight, Nellie
Booklet “S.S.R.C. Project The Nature of Classroom Learning in Primary Schools”
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Observation of Teachers at Work/ Observation of Children at Work. With accompanying delivery note
Booklet "Pupil Behaviour in Junior Classrooms"
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Booklet "Teacher-Pupil Contact in Junior Classrooms"
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Booklet "The Organisation of Junior Classrooms"
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Deposit by Deanne Boydell, c. May 1975
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Boydell, Deanne
Photocopy of letter from Sarah Anne Browne accepting post of schoolmistress at Douglas, Isle of Man
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Deposit relating to Maria Brown
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Brown, Maria
Photocopies of Cheltenham Training College timetable from W Hale’s college album
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Deposit relating to W Hale, Cheltenham Training College student 1878-1879
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
May-Cotterill, Mrs E
Copy of the Chelt song words and music, written out by “Seaweed and Tiny, printers of the jury”
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Originally owned by Francis Jones [possibly student 1906-1908]
Copy of the Chelt song words. Originally owned by Francis Jones [possibly student 1906-1908]
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
With pencil annotations
Deposit relating to The Chelt Song
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Bate, J H D
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Photographer unknown
Unknown
Autobiography of G W Sturges “It’s Me, It’s Me Oh Lord”
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Includes information on time at St Paul’s College
G W Sturges Student’s Journal of Geology
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Illustrated
G W Sturges “Thesis C” on trips taken around Gloucestershire
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Illustrated
G W Sturges “Advanced Geography Thesis B (Special Subject) “Roman Remains in the area””
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Illustrated
Deposit relating to Mr G W Sturges
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Sturges, G W
Group photograph showing John Ball Price
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Annotated with his life story
Photographer unknown
Price, John Ball
Letter accompanying D9 deposit written by Tony Cave
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Photograph of schoolboys, probably St Martin's Bradley
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Taken by R Weatherley Photographer, Birmingham
Photograph of schoolchildren, probably St Martin's Bradley
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Photographer unknown
Photograph of St Martin's Bradley schoolboys
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Photographer unknown
Photograph of St Martin's Bradley schoolboys, possibly doing physical education
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Photographer unknown
Photograph of St Martin's Bradley schoolchildren
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Photographer unknown
Photograph of St Martin's Bradley schoolchildren
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Stamped "H T Chatwin" on reverse
Photographer unknown
Part of University Archive Miscellaneous Donations (D-Numbers)
Photographer unknown