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

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'

The Unservile State Group, in which George Watson served as Editor, was a collective of academics committed to studying and promoting Liberal political values. This series contains three subseries: general documentation pertaining to the group; George Watson's correspondence with members and associated figures; and the correspondence of the Secretary, Bernard Jennings.

This subseries gathers typescripts of articles by George Watson not represented earlier in the series. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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‘Coleridge’s Notebooks’, review of ‘The Notebooks of S.T. Coleridge’, edited by Kathleen Coburn (circa 1957)

'English by Radio: Talk for Teachers – English at Oxford' (circa 1950-1960)

‘The Identity of Europe’ (circa 1961-1964)

‘Joseph Butler and the Ethic of Self’ (circa 1964)

‘Kubla Khan’ (for ‘Studies in Romanticism’) (circa 1967)

'Dinner with the Duke', a dramatic dialogue between the Duke of Wellington and Earl Stanhope (unknown date; estimated 1969, the centenary of Wellington's death)

One page from 'The Reader in Clarendon's "History of the Rebellion"' (for 'The Review of English Studies') (1974)

‘The Voice of Gray’ (‘Critical Quarterly’ 19) (1977)
'Scourge for the Sixties', review of Diana Trilling's 'We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade' (circa 1977)

Review of Brian Fothergill’s ‘Beckford of Fonthill’ (circa 1979)

‘Viewpoint’ and ‘An End to Evaluation?’ (‘Times Literary Supplement’) (1980)

‘Hawk or Airman?’, review of Edward Mendelson’s ‘Early Auden’ (circa 1981)
‘One Donne’, review of John Carey’s ‘John Donne: Life, Mind and Art’ (circa 1981)

‘The Chambers of Memory’, review of Michael Millgate’s ‘Thomas Hardy: a biography’ (1982)
‘Far Other Worlds’, review of T A Shippey’s ‘The Road to Middle-earth’ (circa 1982)

‘Book of the Year’, discussing Paul Joannides’s ‘Drawings of Raphael’ (1983)
‘The Cult of Revolution’, review of Ronald Paulson’s ‘Representations of Revolution 1789-1820’ (circa 1983)
‘Remembering the Trenches’, review of ‘Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918’, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, ‘The War Poems of Sassoon’ arranged and introduced by Rupert Hart-Davis, Sassoon’s ‘Sherston’s Progress’ and Stephen MacDonald’s ‘Not about Heroes’ (circa 1983)
Review of J B Yeats’s ‘Letters to His Son W.B. Yeats and Others 1869-1922’ (circa 1983)

‘Staircase Wit’, review of Laurence and Helen Fowler’s ‘Cambridge Commemorated: An Anthology of University Life’ (circa 1984)

‘Book of the Year’, discussing Douglas Dunn’s ‘Elegies’ and Robert Latham’s ‘Shorter Pepys’ (1985)
‘The Cambridge Phenomenon’, review of A J Ayer’s ‘Wittgenstein’ and Norman Malcolm’s ‘Wittgenstein: A Memoir’ (circa 1985)
‘Sigmund and Anna’, review of ‘The Complete Letters of Sigmund Freud to Wilhelm Fliess’, edited by J M Masson, and Uwe Henrik Peters’s ‘Anna Freud: A Life Dedicated to Children’ (circa 1985)

‘Cuckoo in the Nest’, review of ‘The Notebooks of Samuel Butler’, edited by Henry Festing Jones (‘The Eagle’) (1986)
‘The Great Survivor’, review of R.P. Graves’s ‘Robert Graves: The Assault Heroic 1895-1926’ (1986)
‘The Wright Darwin’ (‘The Eagle’) (1986)
‘Ending up in London’, review of Christopher Hope’s ‘The Hottentot Room’ (circa 1986)

‘Marvellous Middle Age’, review of Peter Ackroyd’s ‘Chatterton: A Novel’ (circa 1987)
Review of ‘The Poems of Tennyson’, edited by Christopher Ricks (circa 1987)
‘Unmarxist Fictions’, review of Franco Moretti’s ‘The Way of the World’ (circa 1987)

Review of Alexander Robertson’s ‘Atkinson Grimshaw’ (circa 1988)
‘The New from New York’, review of Fred Kaplan’s ‘Dickens: A Biography’ (circa 1988)

‘A Yank at Oxford’, review of ‘Logan Pearsall Smith: An Anthology’, edited by Edward Burman (1989)

Peter Stern obituary (‘The Eagle’) (1992)

‘The Story of C.S. Lewis’ (post-1998)

Review of Roland Hill’s ‘Lord Acton’ (circa 2000)

‘The Sphinx That Talked’, review of Isaiah Berlin’s ‘The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism’ (circa 2004)

A page of 'Deathless and Birthless' on one side, and a page of 'The Trope: Hugh Trevor-Roper' on the other (circa 2010)

'The Three Ages', a poem 'after Goethe' (undated)

First published in 'The Sewanee Review', 107:3, 1999. This subseries contains research material, a copied portion of the published article, and correspondence. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Photocopies of research material

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One photocopied page representing the final two pages of the published article

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CORRESPONDENCE

CORE, George

LE SAINT, Monique

PIRZIO-BIROLI, Fey von Hassell

ROSENBERG, Beatrice

TORRES, Dominique
TORRES-LEVIN, Tereska

VERDIER, Robert

WELLS, John

First published 1987. This subseries contains typescripts, photocopied material pertaining to the Chinese edition, correspondence and one review. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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Introductory notes for a course on 'Dissertations: Or How to Write' (13 October 1986)

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Typescript with manuscript corrections
Contents page
Typescript with additional manuscript corrections

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Sample cover

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Two photocopies of the Chinese edition's opening chapter, with a printed AbeBooks.co.uk catalogue page for same

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Correspondence with Andrew McLennan and Mark Anderson of Longman. As this is a short correspondence with two figures from the same company, it has been considered one chronologically arranged file, and not sequenced alphabetically by correspondent as elsewhere in George Watson's papers.

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One review, from the Spring 1987 issue of an unidentified history magazine

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Folder labelled 'Watson: "Writing a Thesis" 4-12-85'

This series arranges offprints, copies and cuttings of articles by writers other than Watson, many of them inscribed to him. Note that when an offprint was accompanied by a letter, it is not to be found here but in one of the correspondence-based series; further cuttings and copies by other writers can be found in Watson/5/30. Items will ultimately be catalogued individually; for now, a list follows.

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ANNAN, Noel: ‘Arnold the Critic’ (‘The Periodical’)
ANONYMOUS: ‘Two Prophets’ (‘Manas’)

BATESON, F W: ‘Modern Bibliography and the Literary Artifact’ (‘English Studies Today’)
BATTESTIN, Martin C: ‘Pictures of Fielding’ (‘Eighteenth-century Studies’)
BAYLY, Christopher A: ‘Moral judgment: empire, nation and history’ (‘European Review’)
BEER, John: Review of Frank Kermode’s ‘Not Entitled: A Memoir’ (‘The Cambridge Review’)
BELL, Quentin: ‘Bloomsbury and “the Vulgar Passions”’ (‘Critical Inquiry’)
BOUCÉ, Paul-Gabriel: ‘Les deux premières traductions françaises des “Gulliver’s Travels”’ (‘La traduction romaesque au XVIIIe siecle’)
BOYDE, Patrick: ‘“Ecfrasi ed ecceitá” in Leopardi’s “Canti”’ (‘Italian Studies’)
BRACHER, Karl Dietrich: ‘Terrorismus and Totalitarismus’ (‘Geschichte und Staat’)
BRADBROOK, M C: 'T.S. Eliot' (supplement to 'British Book News')
BRAITHWAITE, R B: ‘Austin Duncan Jones’ Philosophical Writings’ (‘Analysis’)
BROGAN, Hugh: ‘A History of the “New Statesman”’, review of Edward Hyams (‘The Historical Journal’)
BROGAN, Hugh: ‘Alexis de Tocqueville and the Liberal Movement’ (‘The Historical Journal’)
BUTTLE, Nicholas: ‘Negative and Positive Liberty Revisited’ (‘Politics’)

CAMPBELL, Colin: ‘The Tyranny of the Yale Critics’ (‘The New York Times Magazine’)
CANNADINE, David: ‘Another “Last Victorian”: P.G. Wodehouse and His World’ (‘The South Atlantic Quarterly’)
COLVIN, Christina Edgeworth: ‘Maria Edgeworth’s Tours in Ireland: II. Killarney’ (‘Studia Neophilologica’)
COLVIN, Christina Edgeworth: ‘Maria Edgeworth’s Tours in Ireland: III. Connaught’ (‘Studia Neophilologica’)
COOPER, Helen: ‘Magic that Does Not Work’ (‘Medievalia et Humanistica’)

DAY, Robert A: ‘The “City Man” in “The Waste Land”’ (‘Papers of the Modern Language Association of America’)
DEITZ, Luc: Review of Iulius Caesar Scaliger’s ‘Poetices libri septem’ (‘Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen’)
DUNCAN-JONES, Elsie: ‘Milton and the Tutbury horses: a topical allusion’
DUNCAN-JONES, Elsie: ‘Dryden, Benserade, and Marvell’ (‘The Huntingdon Library Quarterly’)

EDDY, Donald D: ‘John Brown: “The Columbus of Keswick”’ (‘The Journal of Modern Philology’)

FORSTER, Leonard & Jeanne: review of Pepys's 'Tagebuch aus dem London des 17. Jahrhunderts', ed. by Helmut Winter ('Archiv')
FOSTER, Kenelm: ‘Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873)’ (‘Italian Quarterly’)
FROST, David L: ‘Shakespeare in the Seventeenth Century’ (‘Shakespeare Quarterly’)
FROST, David L: ‘“The Windhover”: A Commentary’ (‘Theology’)

GILMOUR, Robin: ‘The Gradgrind School: Political Economy in the Classroom’ (‘Victorian Studies’)
GREENWAY, John: ‘A Guide through James Joyce’s “Ulysses”’ (‘College English’)
HARRISON, Bernard: ‘Virginia Woolf and “The True Reality”’
HOLLOWAY, John: ‘Cambridge and English at Cambridge’
HOLLOWAY, John: ‘Poetic Analysis and the Idea of the Transformation-rule: Some Examples from Herbert, Wordsworth, Pope and Shakespeare’ (‘Miscellanea Anglo-Americana: Festschrift für Helmut Viebrock’)
HOUGH, Graham: ‘Vision and Doctrine in “Four Quartets”’ (‘Critical Quarterly’)

JAMES, E D: Review of W G Moore’s ‘La Rochefoucauld: His Mind and Art’
KERMODE, Frank: ‘Two Instances of Interpretation’
KERMODE, Frank: ‘The Uses of Error’
KERMODE, Frank: ‘Literary Criticism: Old and New Styles’ (‘Essays in Criticism’)
KERMODE, Frank: A portion of ‘Not Entitled: A Memoir’
‘John Maynard Keynes: “New Wisdom for a New Age”’
KNIGHTS, L C: ‘Cambridge Criticism: What Was It?’
KRISTOL, Irving: ‘My Cold War’ (‘The National Interest’)
KUNA, Franz: ‘T.S. Eliot’s Dissociation of Sensibility and the Critics of Metaphysical Poetry’ (‘Essays in Criticism’)
KUNA, Franz: ‘Jakobson’s Theory of Language Functions and the Interpretation of Poetry’ (‘Language and Civilization: A Concerted Profusion of Essays and Studies in Honour of Otto Hietsch’)

LEE, Guy: ‘Allusion, Parody and Imitation’
LEIBHOLZ, Marianne: ‘Ein guter Begleiter’ (‘Begegnungen mit Dietrich Bonhoeffer’)
LEVIN, Bernard: ‘The Most Accurate Prediction in History: ‘The 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall’ (‘Quadrant’)
‘The Canadian C.S. Lewis Journal’ no. 2
‘The Canadian C.S. Lewis Journal’ no. 3

MacDONAGH, Oliver: ‘The Nineteenth Century Novel and Irish Social History: Some Aspects’
MATTHEW, H C G: ‘The Gladstone Diaries: Introduction to Volumes X and XI’
MERYMAN, Richard: ‘Great interviews of the 20th century: Marilyn Monroe’
MONOD, Sylvère: ‘“Hard Times”: An Undickensian Novel?’ (‘Cahiers D'études Et de Recherches Victoriennes Et Édouardiennes’)
MYLNE, Vivienne: Review of Georges May’s ‘Les Mille et Une Nuits d’Antoine Galland ou le chef-d’oeuvre invisible’ (‘Modern Language Review’)

NAGAO, Teruhiko, 'On Authorial Intention: E.D. Hirsch's "Validity in Interpretation" Revisited' ('北海道大學文學部紀要' = 'The Annual Reports on Cultural Science')

PECHEY, Graham: ‘“Frost at Midnight” and the Poetry of Periphrasis’(‘The Cambridge Quarterly’)

RICKS, Christopher: ‘William Empson: 1906-1984’ (‘The Proceedings of the British Academy’)
ROSE, Paul Lawrence: ‘The Noble Anti-Semitism of Richard Wagner’ (‘The Historical Journal’)

SCHMIDT, A V C: ‘Eliot and the Dialect of the Tribe’ (‘Essays in Criticism’)
SCHUCHARD, Ronald: ‘T.S. Eliot as Extension Lecturer, 1916-1919’ (‘The Review of English Studies’)
SCHUCHARD, Ronald: ‘T.S. Eliot as Extension Lecturer, 1916-1919 (Concluded)’ (‘The Review of English Studies’)
SCHUCHARD, Ronald: ‘“First-rate Blasphemy”: Baudelaire and the Revised Christian Idiom of T.S. Eliot’s Moral Criticism’ (‘English Literary History’)
SKINNER, Quentin: ‘The Origins of the Calvinist Theory of Revolution’ (‘After the Reformation’)
SPEARING, A C: ‘A Simple Value-System’, review of ‘Essays on Malory’edited by J A W Bennett (‘The Cambridge Review’)
STANWOOD, P G: ‘The Richard Hooker Manuscripts’ (‘Long Room’)
STEINHOFF, William: portion of chapter XV of ‘George Orwell and the Origins of “1984”’

TREVOR-ROPER, Hugh: ‘Home Thoughts: Hugh Trevor-Roper on the Peterhouse Effect’ (‘The Independent Magazine’)

WEINRICH, Harald: ‘Narrative Theology’ (‘Concilium: Theology in the Age of Renewal’)
WELLEK, René: ‘Coleridge’s Philosophy and Criticism (To 1956)’ (‘The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism’)
WELLEK, René: ‘The Fall of Literary History’ (‘Geschichte – Ereignis und Erzälung’)
WENDER, Dorothea: ‘Plain in Diction, Plain in Thought: Some Criteria for Evaluating Translations of the Iliad’ (‘American Journal of Philology’)
WESSELING, H L: ‘Editorial: changing views on Empire and Imperialism’ (‘European Review’)
WIDDOWSON, H G: ‘The Deviant Language of Poetry’

This series contains material pertaining to George Watson's writing, editorial and research projects. An approximately chronological sequence of material pertaining to his publications (mainly books), including notes, draft material and correspondence, is followed by a subseries of typescripts and offprints of those articles to which no additional material is appended; the series ends with a set of cuttings, photocopies and other research material not previously grouped by Watson, much of it having been interleaved in his personal library in the manner of the 'ex libris' correspondence. Note that references to Watson's books and articles in his overall correspondence are by no means confined to this series.