Lectures and essays, 1950s-1970s

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MS. 6681/41

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All unbound carbon typescript copies unless stated. Comprises:

'The Dramatic Monologue', n.d. With pencil annotations.
'W.B. Yeats' [published in 1954 as 'W.B. Yeats and Human Dignity' in Notable Images of Virtue]. With pencil and ink annotations.
'The Poem and the Lesson', lecture given at the annual Banquet, National Council of Teachers of English Convention in Honolulu, Nov 1967 [later published in English Journal, Vol.57, No.3, Mar 1968].
'The Thirties in Retrospect' [c.1957]. With pencil and ink annotations.
'The Poetry of Edward Thomas', n.d. [possibly an Oxford lecture]. With pencil and ink annotations.
'Paul Nash: a private view', n.d. [published posthumously in Margot Eates, Paul Nash: The Master of the Image 1889-1946, 1973]. Some pencil annotation.
'Introduction' to George Crabbe, n.d. With ink annotations. [published posthumously in Crabbe Selected by C Day-Lewis, Penguin Poet to Poet series, 1973]. With typescript list of poems in The Poetical Works of George Crabbe, OUP 1908.
'The Creative Spirit', one fair and one corrected typescript copy, with fair typescript copy given at Great Saint Mary's church, Cambridge, 2 Jun 1968.
'Making A Poem', n.d. [c.1964]. With pencil and ink amendments and annotations. With draft list of poems.
Incomplete speech on the power of communication, n.d. With ink amendments.
'People Past and Present: Thomas Hardy 1840-1928', devised by John Carroll, given by Jill Balcon, C. Day-Lewis and Gabriel Woolf at The National Portrait Gallery, 15 Oct 1970. C. Day-Lewis's copy, annotated in ink.

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MS. 6681/41

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