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Hopkins, Kenneth, 1914-1988

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1914 - 1988

Biography

Poet and author.

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Kenneth Hopkins ephemera

 Item
Identifier: 1981-025-1
Content Description

A small memory book with 12 bound-in poetry and drawings. A photocopy of the original index sheet is laid in.


Spine title: "Album."

Dates: 1882-1900s

Kenneth Hopkins library of 19th century poetry

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 000021914614]
Identifier: 1981-025
Content Description For almost 40 years the British poet, novelist, and scholar Kenneth Hopkins (1914-1988) collected eighteenth and nineteenth century English poetry, often searching rural bookshops with such bookish companions as Edmund Blunden and Sir Rupert Hart-Davis. The result of his dedication is found in the collection of 5,000 volumes of English poetry from the past two centuries. The collection was formed not so much with an eye towards rarity as with attention to the more obscure figures as well as...
Dates: 1587 - 1980

Kenneth Hopkins poetry memory book, 1882 - 1884

 Item
Identifier: 1981.025.1.1
Scope and Contents

Bound blank book, interspersed with colored pages, bound in red leather with gold stamping. Entries on 10 pages feature handwritten and signed poems and sketches by various individuals.

Dates: 1882 - 1884

Letter from A. Birrell to E.S.P. Haynes, 1920-12-19

 Item
Identifier: 1000.171.1.12
Scope and Contents

"My dear Haynes, Thanks for two reviews according to my work. I have stuck the [---] one in my copy of your [C---] Treatise. As for your notice of my book it did all a review can do...." Includes excised pages of the article, "Old Europe", by Haynes, appearing in The New Witness, 17 Dec 1920.

Dates: 1920-12-19

Letter from Bristol Public Libraries to Hopkins, 1950-02-13

 Item
Identifier: 1981.025.1.2
Scope and Contents

"With reference to your inquiry...I have pleasure in informing you that according to the 1875 edition of "Rhymes in the Wests of England dialect", Agrikler was Joseph Edwards...." found laid in Hopkins's copy of Poems: Humorous and Philosophical by Agrikler. Included is a small snippet of paper with Hopkins's handwritten note regarding Agrikler.

Dates: 1950-02-13

"Lewis Carroll's Southern Holidays", Undated

 Item
Identifier: 1981.025.1.2
Scope and Contents

Article excised from an unidentified newspaper found laid in Hopkins's copy of The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll with an Introduction by Alexander Woollcott....

Dates: Publication: Undated

Miscellaneous literary manuscripts, correspondence and photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 1981-010
Scope and Contents An artificial collection that consists of single and/or small groups of letters, small groups of related literary materials, individual or small groups of manuscripts such as poems and similar individual pieces which were deemed at one time to be of sufficient bulk to be placed into separate collections. These materials were acquired independently of larger collections. The period covered is primarily the first half or so of the twentieth century, but there are selected items dating well...
Dates: 1862 - 1989; Majority of material found within 1925 - 1970

"Poets at the Front", 1972-09

 Item
Identifier: 1981.025.1.2
Scope and Contents

Press cutting of Hopkins's review of Out of Battle: The Poetry of the Great War by Jon Silkin found laid in Hopkins's copy of the book. Included is Oxford University Press note on the review copy.

Dates: Publication: 1972-09

The Poems of John Donne

 Item
Identifier: 1981.025.1.2
Scope and Contents

Image featuring the title page and frontispiece of Poems, by J.D. with Elegies on the Authors Death, found laid in Hopkins's copy of The Poems of John Donne edited by H.J.C. Grierson.

Dates: 1882-1900s

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