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Reviews

This subseries is an approximately chronological arrangement of reviews of George Watson's 'Supplement' to 'The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature' and of 'The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature'.

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1960-1969

'Zeitschrift fuer Anglistik und Amerikanistik' (1960)
'Anglia' (1962)
'A B Bookman’s Weekly' (8 December 1969)
'Times Literary Supplement' (11 December 1969)
'Fraserburgh Herald' (circa 1969-1970)

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1970

'Book Collecting & Library Monthly' (circa February 1970)
'Library Review' (Spring 1970)
'Wilson Library Bulletin' (March 1970)
'Library Journal' (1 April 1970)
'St Luke’s Journal' (June 1970)
'The Private Library' (August 1970)
'Studies in the Novel' (Autumn 1970)
'Bulletin des bibliothèques de France' (November 1970)

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1971

'AUMLA' (first half 1971)
'Journal of English and Germanic Philology' (January 1971)
'Book Review Digest' (May 1971)
'Cithara' (May 1971)
'Different Library Journal' (July 1971)
'Rivista de Letterature Moderne e Comparate' (September 1971)
'Victorian Studies' (September 1971)
'Times Literary Supplement' (15 October 1971)
Letter from J.C. Hilson from the 'Times Literary Supplement', referring to previous review
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1971)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1971) (different from above)

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1972

'Book Review Digest' (January 1972)
'Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America' (first quarter 1972)
'Seventeenth Century News' (Spring 1972)
'Bulletin des bibliothèques de France' (April 1972)
'American Reference Books Annual' (June 1972)
'Philological Quarterly' (July 1972)
'Cithara' (November 1972)
'Times Literary Supplement' (29 December 1972)

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1973

'Library Journal' (15 March 1973)
'Modern Philology' (November 1973)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1973)

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1974

'Daily Telegraph' (August 1974)
'Books & Bookmen' (October 1974)
'Milton Quarterly' (October 1974)
'Age' (November 1974)
'British Book News' (November 1974)
'Catholic Library World' (November 1974)

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1975

'Booklist' (15 January 1975)
'Choice' (January 1975)
'Reference Services Review' (January-March 1975)
'The Library' (June 1975)
'American Book Collector' (March-April 1975)
'Neophilologus' (April 1975)
'Book Review Digest' (May 1975)
'Neue Zurcher Zeitung' (September 1975)
'Comparative Literature Studies' (December 1975)
'Rivista de Letterature Moderne e Comparate' (December 1975)

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1976

'Studies in Burke and His Time' (Spring 1976)
'Études Anglaises' (April 1976)
'Cithara' (May 1976)
'American Reference Book Annual' (June 1976)
'Durham University Journal' (December 1976)
'The Year’s Work in English Studies' (December 1976)

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Study of Literature'

First published 1968. This subseries contains a typescript of the book, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Typescript with manuscript corrections and accompanying envelope fragment.

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CORRESPONDENCE

BARISH, Jonas

CAREY, John

DALESKI, Bill

GARDNER, Helen

HEATH, Stephen
HULL, Morton D

JACQUOT, Jean

KNIGHTS, Lionel Charles

RAMASWAMY, S
REYNOLDS, Barbara

SISSONS, Michael
STERN, Peter & Sheila

WELLEK, René
WIMSATT, William Kurtz
WRIGHT, Andy

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REVIEWS

'Times Literary Supplement' (2 October 1969)
Barry Sullivan, unknown publication

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Envelope labelled '"Study of Literature" / May 1969'

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The English Ideology'

First published 1973. This subseries contains research material, a typescript, cover-design material, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopied research material

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Typescript with manuscript corrections

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Cover-design template on translucent paper
Draft of back-cover description with manuscript corrections
Image of final cover

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CORRESPONDENCE

BARKER, Rodney
BAYLEY, John
BEICHMAN, Arnold

CARSON, Peter
CHALONER, W H
COLLINS, Philip A W

DODDS, Elliott

GALLAGHER, Jack
GILMOUR, Robin
GLEESON, Dermot
GORDON, Eleo

HARVEY, Heather
HENNOCK, Ernest Peter
HOLLOWAY, John

JENNINGS, Bernard
JONES, Emrys

KOSELLECK, R

MacDONAGH, Oliver
MILLER, Karl Fergus Connor
MIRFIN, Derick
MONOD, Sylvere

PELLING, Henry
PRICE, James

ROBSON, John M

SCOTT, Peter
SEEAR, Nancy
SELDON, Arthur
SISSONS, Michael
SKINNER, Quentin
STEINBERG, Jonathan

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REVIEWS

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Envelope labelled '"The English Ideology" (Allen Lane, Feb. 1973)'

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Story of the Novel'

First published 1979. This subseries contains a memorandum of agreement for, and an image of the cover of, the 2008 edition.

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Certainty of Literature'

First published 1989. This subseries contains correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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BLACKFORD, Staige D

HAMILTON, Albert Charles
HARRISON, Bernard

JAMES, Edward D
JONES, Jackie

LINDBER, Stanley W

MIDGLEY, Mary
MOHANTY, Sachidananda
MOUNT, Ferdinand

NAGAO, Teruhiko
NEWELL, Robert

ROBSON, William Wallace

SAVILLE, Amanda

WATSON, Brenda
WRIGLEY, Tony

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

'The Lost Literature of Socialism'

First published 1998. This subseries contains research material, readers' reports, correspondence and reviews. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopies and cuttings of research material

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Reports from two readers

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Mock-up of the book's back cover, with manuscript corrections

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CORRESPONDENCE

BERLIN, Isaiah
BOUCÉ, Paul-Gabriel
BRINK, Adrian
BROWN, L Neville

CALINESCU, Bogdan
CANTOR, Paul A
CORE, George
CROOK, John

DASGUPTA, Partha
DE GIORGIS, Hugues

FAVIER, A
FLEW, Antony Garrard Newton

HITCHIN, Neil

KERRIGAN, John

LAFFITTE-LARNAUDIE, Anne-Marie
LATTÈS, Nicole

MALIK, Teresa
McMILLAN, James A
MELANDRI, Pierre
MOLLOY, Molly
MONOD, Sylvère
MÜLLER, Hans-Harald
MYLNE, Vivienne

OZANAM, Yves

PEARLSTINE, Maggie
POO, Nicoletta

REVEL, Jean-François
REYNOLDS, Barbara
RUSBRIDGER, Alan Charles

SAVILLE, Amanda
SEN, Amartya

TOMBS, Robert

WOLTON, Thierry
WRIGLEY, Tony

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REVIEWS

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

Lectures, events and publications

This subseries collects, in approximate chronological order, invitations, flyers, programmes et cetera for various lectures, events and publications. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Oxford University Liberal Club term card, Michaelmas 1946

Oxford University Liberal Club term card, Hilary Term 1947

Travellers cheque, 13 April 1951

Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Victoria University, Toronto) leaflet, circa 1964

Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, ‘Thomas Gray, 1716-1771’, 7 May 1971

‘Current Research in French Studies’, circa 1972
‘The Harrowing of Hell’, 2 March 1972
Paul Turner, ed., ‘Browning: Men and Women 1855’, 27 July 1972
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, ‘The Rivals’, dir. Sue Limb and Roy Porter, 31 October-4 November 1972

‘Frankenstein’ adapted by Alexeij Sagerer, circa 14 February 1973
Robert Halsband, ‘Lord Hervey: Eighteenth-Century Courtier’, 24 October 1973
Roger Lonsdale, ‘The Poetry of Thomas Gray: Versions of the Self’, 21 February 1973
Arthur Johnston, ‘The Poetry of William Collins’, 21 November 1973

‘Lord Byron: 22 January 1978-19 April 1824’ catalogue, circa 1974
Robert Ellrodt, ‘Self-Consciousness in Montaigne and Shakespeare’, 5 September 1974
Stephen Heath, ‘The Sociality of Writing’, 5 November 1974
Seamus Heaney, ‘The Fire in the Flint: Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins’, 11 December 1974

R.L. Brett, ed., ‘Writers and Their Background’, circa 1975
J.A.W. Bennett, ‘From Casaubon to Mr Casaubon: The Rise and Fall of the Renaissance Scholar’, 5 March 1975

John Heath-Stubbs, ‘Artorius’, 28 May 1976
Tom Stoppard, ‘Jumpers’, circa 21 September 1976
Donald Davie, ‘The Literature of Dissent, 1700-1930’, 27 October-1 December 1976
Kathleen Raine, ‘Waste Land, Holy Land’, 8 December 1976
Christopher Wood, ‘Victorian Panorama: Paintings of Victorian Life’, 1976

‘The Harrowing of Hell’, 27 February 1977
Robert Halsband and Isobel Grundy, eds, ‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Essays and Poems’, 10 March 1977
John Casey, ‘T.S. Eliot’, 19 May 1977

Claire Tomalin, ‘Katherine Mansfield and “The New Age”’, 25 February 1978

C.S. Lewis Estate, ‘Song of the Lion’, 15 January 1980
Helen Gardner, ‘Happy Endings’, 11 November 1980
Robert Halsband, ‘”The Rape of the Lock” and Its Illustrations’, 24 July 1980

J.A.W. Bennett Memorial Lectures, 17 February-7 April 1981
Geoffrey Keynes, ‘The Gates of Memory’, 22 October 1981

J.B. Yeats, ‘Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others 1869-1922’, ed. Joseph Hone, 31 May 1983
30th anniversary of ‘Encounter’, 18 October 1983
J.K Galbraith, Roy Jenkins and Richard Wainwright, John Maynard Keynes Centenary Meeting, 1 December 1983

Readings in memory of William Empson, 25 May 1984
‘Critical Quarterly’ anniversary celebration, 30 May 1984
Endellion String Quartet recital for Robin Orr’s 75th birthday. 1 November 1984
William Holding, ‘Nobel Lecture’ publication, 1984

‘Cecil Beaton and Friends’ 28 May 1985
‘Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth’, 23 July 1985

Frank Kermode, ‘The Uses of Error’, 11 May 1986
'An Evening with Samuel Pepys' at Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1 October 1986

Opening of the Fisher Building, St John's, 16 June 1988
‘English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700’, September 1988
John Stevens, ‘Music & Poetry from the Trouvères to Purcell’, 6 November 1988

‘Cambridge English’ lectures, 23 January-6 March 1989
‘Forms and Attention: The Work of Frank Kermode’, 18-19 March 1989
T.S. Eliot Memorial Lecture drinks reception and supper, 6 November 1989

Introductory readings of ‘The Duino Elegies’, 17 January-7 March 1991
Party in honour of Douglas Adams on the presentation of his third Golden Pan Award and the publication of ‘Last Chance to See’, 25 November 1991

John Stuart Mill Institute introductory text, circa 1992

John Beer, ‘Against Finality’, 4 February 1993
Bernard Williams, ‘Three Models of Truthfulness’, 5-7 May 1993
Colin Tite, ‘The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton’ (24 November 1993)

Germaine Greer, J.H. Gray Lectures, 9-13 May 1994

Lord Acton Centenary Celebration Activities, 16 March 1995

Tiepolo exhibition, 5 July 1996-12 January 1997
Joseph Epstein, ‘Anglophilia, American Style’, 24 March 1997

Mervyn King, ‘The New Monetary Policy Committee’, 16 November 1998
C.S. Lewis centenary readings, 24 November 1998

NiL Éditions catalogue général 1999
R.D. Gray and N. Boyle, ‘An Evening with Goethe & Eckermann’, 10 March 1999

L'Assemblée générale annuelle de l'ALEPS, 14 March 2000
Jonathan Smith, ‘The Learning Game’, 6 April 2000

John Barton, Faculty of Classics Corbett Lecture, 17-18 November 2002

‘The(e)ories: Advanced Seminars for Queer Research 2003’ call for papers, 2003
Election of the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, 14-15 March 2003

Itinerary for George Watson’s visit to Loretto Senior School, Musselburgh, 17-19 May 2004

Noah Charney, ‘Mr and Mrs Andrews’, 10-14 May 2005
Hugh Trevor-Roper centenary celebration, 11 January 2014

Watson, George Grimes (1927-2013) literary critic

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