Papers of Michael Roberts, including some later papers of Janet Adam Smith concerning Michael Roberts.

Collection

Identifier: Acc.13145/1-97

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Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence and papers relating to the following published volumes by Michael Roberts:

'These our Matins' (London: Elkin Matthews and Marrot, 1930)

'New Signatures', collected by Michael Roberts (London: Hogarth Press, 1932)

'Elizabethan Prose. Selected and prefaced by M. Roberts' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1933)

'New Country', edited by Michael Roberts (London: Hogarth Press, 1933)

'Critique of Poetry' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1934)

Michael Roberts and E.R. Thomas, 'Newton and the Origin of Colours. A study of one of the earliest examples of scientific method' (London: G. Bell, 1934)

'Poems' (London: Jonathan Cape, 1936)

'Poetry', English number, edited by W.H. Auden and Michael Roberts (Chicago, 1937)

'The Modern Mind' (London: Faber and Faber, 1937)

'Orion Marches: poems' (London: Faber and Faber, 1939)

'The Recovery of the West' (London: Faber and Faber, 1941)

'The Faber Book of Comic Verse', edited by Michael Roberts (London: Faber and Faber, 1942)

'The Estate of Man' (London: Faber and Faber, 1951)

'Collected Poems with an introductory memoir by Janet Roberts' (London: Faber and Faber, 1958).

Dates

Creation: 1922-1976, undated.

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Normal access conditions apply.

Conditions Governing Use

Normal reproduction conditions apply, subject to any copyright restrictions.

Extent

97 Consultation units

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

These papers have been selected and arranged by a son of Michael Roberts, Professor Andrew D. Roberts.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Bequeathed by Janet Adam Smith, and accessioned, 2010, through the good offices of Professor Andrew Roberts.

Related Materials

For correspondence concerning the 'Collected Poems' see Acc.12342/185-186.

For the papers of Michael Roberts's wife, Janet Adam Smith, see Acc.6301, Acc.11164, Acc.12342 and Acc.13396.

Michael Roberts' correspondence relating to his editing The Faber Book of Modern Verse' (London: Faber and Faber, 1936) was sold in 1977 by Janet Carleton (Janet Adam Smith) to the Berg Collection, New York Public Library. Materials relating to his T.E. Hulme (London: Faber and Faber, 1938) were donated by her in 1960 to the University of Keele (North Staffordshire).

Bibliography

For further accounts, see 'A Portrait of Michael Roberts', edited by T.W. Eason and R. Hamilton (1949); Michael Roberts: selected poems and prose', edited by F. Grubb (1980), the entry in the 'Oxford Dictionary of National Biography' (2004) and Andrew D. Roberts. 'Michael Roberts and the BBC', in William Roger Louis, ed., 'Irrepressible Adventures with Britannia' (IB.Tauris, 2013).