Item 1 - The Chancellor's Medal: a history of the Cambridge poetry prize

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The Chancellor's Medal: a history of the Cambridge poetry prize

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  • 1986 (Creation)

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Photocopy of typescript, ff. [i-iii], 1-141 [with: 1; 2; 3; 2; 3; 6; 6; 5; 2 unnumbered ff. of footnotes inserted between chapters].
With photocopies of further associated material, largely typescript with a few MS annotations: 3 ff.; 9 ff. (stapled together); 5 ff. (stapled together); 10 ff. (stapled together); 4 ff. (each single sheet); 3 ff (photocopy of printed article, stapled together).

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(b 1946)

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Presented to Trinity College Library by Graham Chainey, May 1986.

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Includes appendix with lists of subjects and winners (the results for 1985 and 1986 added by hand).

With copy of note by Chainey, 23 Apr. 1986, stating his intention to deposit copies of this work from 1984 with the University Library, Trinity College Library, and King's College Library, with copies of 'all the post-1970 winning poems I have managed to gather' as well as some associated correspondence deposited with the University Library and a selection from this material at the other two institutions.

Includes copies of correspondence with Roger Evans and with Jacqueline Osherow, Jun. 1984, as well as copies of poems by David Lloyd, Jacqueline Osherow, Alice Goodman, James Noggle, Jean Hanff Korelitz.

Copy of Chainey's 'The Chancellor's English Medal', reprinted from the Cambridge Review, Dec. 1984, pp. 200-203.

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      Cambridge University Library, MS Add.8639.

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