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- 1998-2000 (Creation)
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Letters relating to the compilation of an updated version of The Art of Seamus Heaney, edited by Tony Curtis and originally published by Poetry Wales Press in 1982 (see, for example: https://www.serenbooks.com/product/the-art-of-seamus-heaney-paperback/), correspondents comprising Professors Howard Erskine-Hill, Tim Kendall and M. Wynn Thomas, and poet and academic Bernard O'Donoghue.
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- English
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Tim Kendall is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter. He has published studies of Paul Muldoon and Sylvia Plath, as well as a collection of poems titled Strange Land, and is founding editor of the poetry magazine Thumbscrew. (https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=374)
Professor Howard Erskine-Hill was an English literary scholar, most notable for his work on the eighteenth century poet Alexander Pope. He taught English at the University of Wales, Swansea from 1960 to 1965. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Erskine-Hill)
Bernard O'Donoghue was born in Cullen, Co. Cork and moved to England when he was 16 years old. He lectured in Medieval English Literature, English Language and Modern Irish Literature at Magdalen and Wadham Colleges, Oxford and is now Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_O%27Donoghue)
M. Wynn Thomas is Professor of English at Swansea University and holds the Emyr Humphreys Chair of Welsh Writing in English at the same establishment, his particular fields being American poetry and modern Welsh literature. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._Wynn_Thomas)
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- Kendall, Tim, Professor, 1970- (Subject)
- Erskine-Hill, Howard, Professor, 1936-2014 (Subject)
- O'Donoghue, Bernard, 1945- (Subject)
- Thomas, M. Wynn (Subject)