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Manuscripts of the poems numbered I-II, IV-XIX, XXII, XXV, XXVIII, XXX, XXXII, XXXIII (3), and XXXVIII of 'Poems and songs'., 1933-1936, n.d.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.5035/1

Scope and Contents

Together with an apparently unpublished poem and three printed poems.

Scope and Contents

'The primal stone of the sheep-walls of Yorkshire/', 1933 (two manuscripts); 'Birds have their feet in air;/', n.d.; 'No Flowers By Request', 1933 (two manuscripts); 'Audenesque for an Invitation', n.d.; 'Public School', 1933 (two manuscripts); 'On The Author's Photograph', n.d.; 'The Fourth of May', 1934 (two manuscripts); 'Though what I think is hardly news/', 1934 (two manuscripts); 'Song' 1934 (two manuscripts); 'My friend is far, his assurance and despondency,/', 1934; 'He thought of being in a single room/', 1934 (two manuscripts); 'To go to leave the classics and the buildings', 1934; 'Poem before sleep', 1935; 'We see in parks the children of the rich/', n.d., with a poem beginning 'And now/Virtue is all in writing/', n.d.; 'We who together shall now be apart/', n.d.; 'Sentimental Blues', n.d.; 'The famous fascist, night,/', 1935 (two manuscripts); 'Dollfuss Day, 1935', 1935; 'Acts of anger, not acts of love/', n.d.; 'Political poem', 1936; 'Song', n.d.; 'O girl beneath the exploring hand/', n.d.; 'Cambridge', n.d.; 'Song', n.d., published as 'Sir Percy's Song'; 'Days of Contempt', n.d.; 'The smells of autumn and its solemn brown,/' and 'We follow lives that twist like woodland paths,/', 1936 (printed); 'Jazz Song' 1936 (printed).

Dates

  • Creation: 1933-1936, n.d.

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Extent

27 Folders

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division Repository

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