Literary papers

Item author: Andrew Motion
Item date: 20th century
Grant Value: 35,000
Item cost: 35,000
Item date acquired: 1999
Item institution: British Library
Town/City: London

30 notebooks of intensely reworked autograph drafts for Motions eight volumes of published verse, together with unpublished poems. Notes and drafts for his critical studies of Edward Thomas, Philip Larkin, John Keats, the Lamberts and William Barnes; there are also five volumes of reviews and other miscellaneous writings. Presented by the Friends with a grant from the Philip Larkin fund