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Series V. Poems, 1944-1961. [series]:
(229 items.)
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*[Selection of poems for Grove Press, 1961].
(3 items. AT set aside a group of papers under a cover
sheet marked "Final Draft/Working Notes/and Early Versions of a
Selection of Poems to be Published in 1. vol. (by Grove Press).
These drafts--which by no means comprise all that could fit
under that heading--are now filed under the individual poem
titles (see below); but each is marked by an asterisk (*) to
show that it has come from this group. In this folder, then, are
two draft tables of contents for the selection, as
follows:)
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1. Auto., 1 p., including "A Little Geography
Lesson for My Sons and Daughters," "The Dark Woman,"
"Portrait," "Wind from the Bosphoros," "He Tasted History with
a Yellow Tooth," "The Brown Land," "The Man and the Moon,"
"The Water Spout," "Beware of the Boarhunt," "The Bleach
Country," "To an English Lady," "Notes." |
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2. Ts., 1 p., including "Portrait," "Le copain de
Soi-meme," "Wind from the Bosphoros," "He tasted history with
a yellow tooth," "The brown land," "The man and the moon,"
"The water spout," "To an English Lady," "Beware of the
boarhunt," "First love," "A song for my ancestors," "The
bleach country," "Notes," "The virgin and the rose: III.
Flastaff." |
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Man at Leisure.
[Collection of poems published by Calder & Boyars,
1972.]
(Ts.(x) w/ extensive auto. revisions, 88 pp. [Notes
toward Man at Leisure]. Misc.
auto. and ts. notes, 10 pp.) |
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Individual Poems
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"Advt."
(3 items: Auto., 1 p.; carbon of same, 1 p.; ts.(x), 1
p. [published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"The Agglutinous Underneath."
(Ts., 1 p.) |
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("& what are you writing...").
(Ts.(mim) w/ auto. correction, 1 p.) |
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("Assuming there is hesitation").
(Ts., 3 pp.) |
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"Belinda."
(2 items: Ts.(x) [headed "tabula rasa (phase A);"], 1
p.; ts., 1 p. [published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"Beware Of the Boarhunt."
(3 items: *Auto. draft (as "From a myth of the Golden Bough"), 2 pp.; *ts. w/ auto.
corrections (as "Don't get run over by a tank cos you're a fool
if you do..."), 1 p.; *ts.(x) marked "Grove Edition," 1 p.
[published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"The Bleach Country."
(4 items: *Auto., untitled, on verso of ts. of "Poem
(`Who will break the boy's cry over the city?')," 1 p.; *ts. w/
sl. auto. correction, 2 pp.; ts., 1 p.; *ts.(x) of same, marked
"Grove Edition," 1 p.) |
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["Boxes"].
(2 items: Ts. fragment ("A Political Solution (`Place
prime ministers upon cruisers')," 1 p.; ts. fragment ("General
Apathy") with lines from "Man at Leisure," 1 p. [both published
in Man at Leisure] (See also ("Of
being invented"), below.)) |
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"The Broken Ikon."
(Auto., 7 pp. Written at Garronhead, Balfron Station,
Stirlingshire [ca. 1947-8].) |
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"The Brown Land."
(9 items: *Auto. draft (as "Mexico"), ts. draft (Paris
1951) w/ auto. corrections, 2 pp.; *ts. (Paris 1951), 1 p.;
*ts.(x) marked "Grove Edition," 1 p.; ts. and 3 tss.(x), 4 pp.;
ts.(x) w/ the last 2 stanzas of "L S D" [see "L'Enfer...C'Est
Les Autres" below], 1 p. [published in Man
at Leisure]) |
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"Civil Liberties."
(Auto., 2 pp.) |
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["Conception"].
(2 items: *Auto draft fragment, untitled, 1 p.; *ts.
(as "The Birth of the Poet," dated 30 December 1953) w/
corrections, 1 p. [N.B. Both of these early versions belong to
the set of mss. compiled for the poem "Notes" (q.v.), of which
this poem (as "Mixed Motive" or "Pot of Gold") was to be section
(iv). ["Conception" published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"Le Copain de Soi-Meme."
(2 items: Auto. draft, untitled, 2 pp.; *auto. (Cap
d'Ail 1951), 2 pp.) |
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"The Dark Woman."
(6 items: Untitled auto. draft, 2 pp.; ts. draft (as
"Poem"), 1 p.; ts. (as "Poem," Paris 1951) w/ auto. corrections,
1 p.; ts. & ts.(x), 2 pp.; ts. marked "Final Version" for
Grove Edition, 1 p.) |
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("The dead star").
(Ts., 1 p. On verso is an untitled ts. poem or fragment
beginning, "I cannot tell how to say that the ear of
corn.") |
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"Did I Meet You In Persopolis?"
(4 items: auto. dated London 1970, 2 pp.; carbon of
same, 2 pp.; partial auto. draft, 1 p.; ts. fragment, 1 p.
[published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"The Dirge of Life."
(Ts.(x) w/ typed dedication "For Mollie," hand-dated
1944, 9 pp.) |
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"A Dream of Cain."
(Ts. (Glasgow 1948), 2 pp.) |
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"The Dull Green Jar."
(Ts. (Glasgow, July 1946), 2 pp.) |
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"encounter."
(Auto. (Cap d'Ail, October 1951), 1 p.) |
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"L'Enfer...C'Est Les Autres: Views."
(3 items: Ts.(x), 2 pp. (includes the first 6 stanzas
of "L S D"); ts. w/o 1st stanza, 2 pp. (AT's address = St.
Stephen's Gardens); carbon of same w/ auto. corrections, 2 pp.
[L'Enfer..." and "L S D" published in Man
at Leisure] (See also "Notes" and "Sad' Poems,"
below.)) |
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("English gentlemen can't write poetry").
(Auto., 1 p.) |
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"For Lyn."
(4 items: Auto. draft, untitled, w/ note, "For Rosemary
Thomas, sweet wench," 1 p.; untitled ts. w/ auto. correction, 1
p.; ts.(x) (as "A thought for Lyn") w/ first stanza of
"L'enfer...C'est les autres" (q.v.), 1 p.; ts.(x) also including
two other poems, "the man and the moon" (q.v.) and "pot of gold"
(later "Conception").) |
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["L'Enfer...," "Conception," and "The Man And The
Moon" published in Man at Leisure;
" For Lyn" was the dedication to MAL
in one ms. version] |
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("floated away from him").
(Auto. fragment, 1 p.) |
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"Gold."
(Ts. (x), 1 p.) |
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("Having died daily").
(Ts., 1 p.) |
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"He Tasted History With A Yellow Tooth."
(8 items: *Ts. w/ auto. note., 1 p.; *ts. w/
corrections and the note "New W Writing/No. 3," 1 p.; ts., 1 p.;
*ts. (x) of same marked "Grove Edition," 1 p.; 4 tss. (x), 1 p.
ea. [published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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("How at Thebes Tiresias, the prophet").
(28 items:)
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1. *Auto. draft/notes
(8 pp.;) |
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2. *Auto. draft fragments
(3 items, 4 pp.;) |
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3. *Ts. draft in 6 sections (as "The Virgin and the
Rose")
(15 pp. [incomplete, p. 16 missing];) |
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4. *Complete ts. draft in 6 sections, untitled,
with extensive annotations in Christopher Logue's
hand
(12 pp. Section III has corrections but no
annotations, and has been cut from the ms., thus dividing
pages 4 and 8 into two parts; it bears the handwritten title,
"III. fron The Thin
Harpist.") |
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5. *Ts. (x) of same w/ sl. auto.
corrections
(8 pp. [incomplete];) |
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6. *Ts. draft of opening sections (as "The Thin
Harpist") with auto corrections
(3 pp. [incomplete];) |
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7. *Ts. draft w/ auto corrections
(18 pp. [missing title page and others];) |
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8. *Ts. (x) w/ sl. auto. corrections, marked "Grove
Edition [The virgin and the rose]"
(10 pp. [incomplete] (The date "Paris 1951" appears
at the beginning of section IV.);) |
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9. Untitled ts. draft of section I
(3 pp., + 2 tss. (x) of same, 6 pp.;) |
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10. Ts. draft of section I and 1st 2 stanzas of
section II (as "first three pages of long poem")
(2 pp.;) |
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11. Ts. draft of same portion of poem (as "history"
(?))
(3 pp., + carbon of same, 3 pp.;) |
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12. Untitled ts. (x) draft of same opening
sections
(3 pp.;) |
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13. Ts. and ts. (x) fragments from section
II
(5 items, 5 pp.;) |
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14. Untitled ts. of section II
(3 pp., + carbon of same, 3 pp.;) |
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15. Ts. of section III (as "Falstaff"), ascribed to
"James Fidler,"
(3 pp., + carbon of same, 3 pp.;) |
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16. Untitled ts. of section IV
(3 pp.; carbon of same, 2 pp.
[incomplete].) |
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[Section III published as "Falstaff" in Merlin, vol. 1, no. 1 (1952); entire poem
published complete in 5 sections in Man at
Leisure] |
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"In Memoriam."
(2 items: Ts. (London 1945), 1 p.; partial draft ts., 1
p.) |
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"In Pursuit of Woman."
(Auto. draft as "The Connoisseur," 1 p. [published in
Man at Leisure]) |
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"In The White Bowl Of Yr Thighs."
(Ts. (x) w/ sl. auto. correction, 1 p. [published in
Man at Leisure]) |
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["Into My Church"].
(2 items: Partial auto. draft beginning) |
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"Into this room u walk naked,"
(1 p. (Cf. also the poem "21," which is another version
of these same lines).; ts. draft w/ auto. corrections (as
"Poem") beginning with lines from the short poem later titled
"Fear," 1 p. ["Into My Church," "21," and "Fear" published in
Man at Leisure]) |
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"The last question."
(Ts. (Glasgow 1949), 3 pp.) |
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"Lessons Fr Boys & Girls I."
(2 items: Ts. (x) on verso of press
release/subscription sheet for the sigma
portfolio, 1 p.; ts. (x) fragment, do., 1 p.) |
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"Letters to Contemporaries."
(Ts. draft of section 1 (as "Letters from a
Contemporary" with "to" typed in above "from") on Sigma
stationery, 1 p. [published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"Little Balade of the Three Rivers." Tr. from
Lorca.
(Ts. (x) marked "page 1," 1 p.) |
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"A Little Geography Lesson For My Sons &
Daughters."
(12 items: Ts. with auto. corrections, marked in pencil
"First verse draft, June '61" [error for '51 (?); the
typewritten date reads "Paris, Christmas 1950," i.e., the date
of the first prose version], 4 pp.; ts. (x) of same, 4 pp.; ts.
+ ts. (x) of fragment (opening lines), 2 pp.; ts. (x) of same
with auto. addition, 1 p.; ts. with auto. corrections (Paris
1953), 4 pp.; 3 tss. (x) of same, 12 pp.; ts. (x) w/ sl. auto.
correction, 3 pp.; ts. [final version], 4 pp.; ts. (x) of same
marked "Draft to Grove edition" and dated "1950 + 1960-1," with
auto. corrections and ms. title page marked "Final (2nd) Verse
draft, July 1961," 5 pp. [published in Man
at Leisure] (For an early prose version of this poem, see
under Stories, Series IV, Box 4, Folder 33, above.)) |
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("The lock gives way beneath their
blows").
(Ts. signed "M.F. / R. Lee / A. T.," 1 p. (Perhaps a
collaborative poem.)) |
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("lord finecat is like that").
(3 items: Ts. and ts. (x), 2 pp.; ts. (x) of same with
auto. addition, 1 p.) |
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"The Lost Chord."
(Ts. (Rosneath 1946), 3 pp.) |
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["Love Poem"].
(3 items: Auto. fragment, 1 p.; untitled ts. with auto.
corrections, 1 p.; ts. (x) of same, 1 p. [published in Man at Leisure]) |
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["L S D"].
(8 items: Early ts. draft (Cap d'Ail 1951, as "iron
leaves break...") with auto. correction, 1 p.; 2 tss. (x) of
same, 2 pp.; ts., 2 pp.; 1st page of ts. of final version, 1 p.;
3 ts. (x) of final version, 6 pp. [published in Man at Leisure]) |
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"The Man and the Moon."
(7 items: *Ts. draft w/ auto. corrections (Cap d'Ail
1951; title changed from "The Cash Register and the Scarecrow"),
1 p.; *ts. (Cap d'Ail, October 1951), 1 p.; ts., 1 p.; *ts. (x)
of same, marked "Grove Edition," 1 p.; ts. and 2 tss. (x), 3 pp.
[published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"Man at Leisure."
(2 items: Ts. (x) w/ auto. correction, 1 p.; ts.
fragment, with fragment of "Obscene" (q.v.), on verso of Sigma
release, 1 p. [both published in Man at
Leisure] (See also "Boxes," above, and "Notes,"
below.)) |
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["Marilyn"].
(Ts. (x), untitled, 1 p. (includes fragment of an early
draft of "Love Poem"). [both published in Man at Leisure]) |
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["Myrtle Again"].
(Auto., untitled, 1 p. [published in Man at Leisure]) |
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"Myrtle With The Light Blue Hair."
(12 items: Auto., untitled (marked "[First Love]"), on
Embassy cigarette pack, 2 pp.; *auto., untitled, 1 p.; *ts. (as
"First Love") w/ auto. corrections, 2 pp.; 2 tss. (x) (as "First
Love"; *one marked "Grove Edition"), 2 pp.; ts. and ts. (x), all
lowercase, 2 pp.; 2 tss. (x), 2 pp.; ts. (x), doublespaced, 2
pp., and dup. 2nd page of same; ts. (x) with auto. corrections,
1 p. [published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"Nocturne."
(Ts. (Glasgow 1948), 3 pp.) |
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"Notes."
(9 items: *Auto notes (including a draft of section
(ii)), 1 p.; *auto notes, 1 p.; *early ts. version comprised of
section (i) (dated Paris, May 1951) followed by 3 earlier short
poems ["Two Thoughts" (Chatham 1944), "Of a Shadow" (Glasgow
1946), and "The Eumenides" (Glasgow 1945)], 3 pp.; *ts. draft
section, "On the Sad Fate of a Very Dear Friend," [not used in
any extant version], 1 p.; *ts. version in 6 sections, marked
"Grove Edition," 2 pp.; ts. w/ auto. addition, 4 pp.; 2 tss. (x)
of same, one w/ sl. auto. correction, 8 pp.; ts. (x), 2 pp.
[incomplete]. This draft poem in (ultimately) 8 sections
contains the germs of several later poems. Four appeared in
later versions in Man at Leisure:
section (ii), "A young poet," supplied the epigraph for
"Man at Leisure" (q.v.); section (iv), "Pot of Gold" is an early
draft of "Conception" (q.v.); section (vi), "What is that?"
appeared virtually unchanged (but see this poem's entry below
for earlier drafts); and section (vii), "L'enfer...c'est les
autres," became the opening lines of the poem of that name. In
addition, section (iii), "Yoghurt & Sorge," exists in a sl.
longer version as "Yogart and Sorge" (q.v.).) |
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["Obscene"].
(2 items: Ts. and ts. (x) draft of section I (as "on a
lavatory wall:"), 2 pp. [published in Man
at Leisure]) |
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("Of being invented)").
(Ts. fragment of a longer work, 1 p. (includes 3 lines
("Things is nice scented...") later incorporated into "Boxes"
(q.v.).) |
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"Poem (`My god is the god of the magnetic
mountain')."
(Ts. (Glasgow 1948), 2 pp.) |
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"Portrait."
(7 items: Auto. draft, untitled, in 2 sections, 2 pp.
(section (i) became the published poem--section (ii) has been
cut out of the sheet of paper and lies loose); ts. draft, 2 pp.;
ts., final version, 1 p.; *ts. (x) of same, marked Grove
Edition, 1 p.; ts. and ts. (x), do., 2 pp.; ts. (x), do., 1 p.
[published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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["A Prolegomena to Praxis"].
(4 items: Ts. early draft (as "taktix"), 1 p.; ts. (x)
draft fragment w/ auto. correction, 1 p.; auto. draft fragment
and carbon, 2 pp. [published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"...P.S."
(2 items: Ts., untitled, 1 p.; ts., 1 p.) |
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"Red."
(Ts. (x), 1 p.) |
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"The Sacred Grove."
(Ts., 1 p.) |
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"Sad' Poems."
(4 items: Ts. (as "Notes for The Sad' Poems"), 1 p.;
ts. (x), title as above, text extended by three sections later
to become the final sections of "L'Enfer...C'Est Les Autres"
(q.v.), 2 pp.; ts. with auto. corrections (as "The Sad' Poems"),
text as in preceding entry, 3 pp.; ts. (x) of same with auto.
corrections, 2 pp. [incomplete]. [both poems published in Man at Leisure]) |
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("She was a rancid lass").
(Ts. (x) w/ auto. additions, 1p.) |
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["Sigma"].
(2 items: Ts. and ts. (x), untitled, 2 pp. [published
in Man at Leisure]) |
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("Silk-sleek, Brown-thighs").
(Auto. (1951), 1 p.) |
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("The son of God").
(3 items: Ts. and 2 tss. (x), 3 pp.) |
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"Song (`Gather my thoughts, Betty')."
(Ts. w/ auto. notes on verso, 2 pp.) |
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"A Song for my Ancestors."
(3 items: *Ts. w/ auto. corrections, 1p.; ts., 1 p.;
*ts. (x) of same, marked "Grove Edition" 1p.) |
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["The Stinking Cauldron"].
(2 items: 2 tss. (x), untitled. [published in Man at Leisure]) |
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"To an English Lady."
(4 items: *Auto draft on verso of canceled ts. of "In
Memoriam," 1 p.; *ts. (as "Pome"), marked "First Draft," 1 p.;
ts., 1 p.; *ts. (x) of same, marked "Final Draft" and "Grove
Edition," 1 p. (See also "Two Songs," below.)) |
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"Turn off that Radio, Friend."
(2 items: Ts. and ts. (x), 2 pp.) |
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"Two Songs."
(3 items: Ts. and ts. (x), 2 pp. [N.B. The two songs
are untitled individually. The 1st begins, "When I walked
through sp[r]ing from London town"; the 2nd begins, "Lady lady
your discretion" and appears elseqhere as "To an English Lady"
(q.v.)]; ts., 1st song only (as "Song"), 1 p..) |
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"The Water Spout."
(4 items: *Auto draft, 1 p.; *ts. (as "October '51") w/
auto. corrections, 1 p.; *ts. (as "October '51," Cap d'Ail), 1
p.; *ts. (x) marked "Grove Edition," 1 p. [published in Man at Leisure]) |
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("What has been given cannot").
(Ts. fragment, 1 p.) |
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["What is That?"].
(4 items: Ts. w/ auto. additions, 1 p.; ts. (x) of
same, 1 p.; ts. (as section 1 of a poem called "On Love (An
essay for Alexander Pope, maker)") w/ auto. marginalia, 1 p.;
ts. (x) of same, 1 p. [published in Man at
Leisure] (See also "Notes," above.)) |
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("When I was young and fourteen").
(Ts. fragment w/ auto. draft lines on verso, 2
pp.) |
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"Wind From the Bosphorus."
(8 items: *Auto. draft, 2 pp. (verso includes canceled
ts. poem ("Poem") beginning "When I died"); *ts. draft w/ auto
corrections (Paris, April 1951), 3 pp.; *ts. (April, 1951,
Paris), 2 pp.; ts. and ts. (x), 2 pp.; *ts. marked "Grove Press
Edition" and ts. (x), 2 p.; ts. (x), 1 p. [published in Man at Leisure]) |
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["The Worldly Wisdom of Cdr. T. Taskmaster Disaster,
R.N."].
(3 items: Ts. (x) fragment, 1 p.; ts. and ts. (x) of
2nd section (as "The Sayings Cmdr Ethelred T Disaster"), 2 pp.
[published in Man at
Leisure]) |
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"Yogart and Sorge."
(2 items: Ts. (x), 1 p.; ts. fragment, 1 p.) |
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[Miscellaneous Poetry Worksheets]. Misc. auto.
worksheets
(19 pp.; ts. fragments, 2 pp.) |
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