Tynan Archive. Essay notes and working schedules; including notes on and quotations from many writers from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, but mostly from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and focussing particularly on the metaphysical poets, Gray, and extensive notes on Samuel...
Tynan Archive. Final drafts of eight essays on a variety of subjects: 'Shakespeare’s early comedies', 'Four metaphysical poets', 'Alexander Pope', 'Johnson as critic', 'Lyrical Ballads', 'William Cowper', 'Othello and Anthony and Cleopatra', 'Troilus, All’s Well and Measure for Measure' and 'Sha...
Tynan Archive. Oxford notebooks, numbered 1-7 in Tynan's hand on 'post-it' notes attached to the volumes. They contain lecture notes on many aspects of English literature and language, and include doodles and some written sketches, for example of a play rehearsal.
Tynan Archive. Oxford essays, many marked with comments by his tutors C. S. Lewis and J. A. Bennett, some extensively; n.d. Some of the essays show Tynan’s final amendments, often in mauve ink. The essays are individually paginated, and there are notes from Tynan on two essays that they lack the...
Tynan Archive. Oxford essays. 1. Essays annotated by his tutors, J. A. Bennett and C. S. Lewis, some extensively; n.d. One essay has had a mark assigned. Originally in the same file as Add. 87759, and includes the original cardboard file which is the only evidence for his tutors’ identities. ...
Tynan Archive. Notebook 2; circa 1948. Not indexed; contains notes on English language, its history, structure and use. The notebook has been used from both ends, to yield space for notes, costume designs and draft letters relating to Tynan’s university production of Hamlet.
Tynan Archive. Notebook 5; 1945. Indexed; covers the same topics and lecture series as notebook 1 above. The notebook has been used from both ends to accommodate notes on Old English including some from a lecture by J. R. R. Tolkien.
Tynan Archive. Notebook 7; main volume undated, but loose pages April-June 1946. Contains lecture notes on Chaucer and Dryden, and notes (probably essay notes) on 'Scepticism and Belief in Donne' and 'Donne’s style'. Most of the latter have been numbered and crossed through in a style Tynan l...