Notebook of verse entitled 'The Rose Tree in Time's Garden…'
MS. Eng. poet. d. 252
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Title
Notebook of verse entitled 'The Rose Tree in Time's Garden…'
Shelfmark
MS. Eng. poet. d. 252
Summary
All the poems were collected posthumously in The Old Ships. For an account of this notebook see Sherwood, pp. 216-217. Contents include:
(fols. 1-3r) an autograph title page and projected contents list, annotated with the names of periodicals in which the poems first appeared
(fols. 7-9r) fair copies in Frank Savery's hand of 'The Gate of the Armies', Apr [19]13; 'The Old Ships', Jul 1913, New Statesman 13 Dec 1913; 'Stillness', Nov-Dec 1913
(fol. 10r) an amended autograph copy of 'The Pensive Prisoner', Apr 1914, revised Nov 1914
(fols. 11v-12) a fair copy, in Helle Flecker's hand, of Flecker's second version of 'God Save the King'
(fols. 22v-30r) 'The Burial in England' copied by Helle Flecker, with (fols. 27-28) two additional leaves containing revisions in Frank Savery's hand, amended throughout by Flecker; see Sherwood, p. 220
(fols. 30v-33r) two printed cuttings from the Sphere of 'The old warship ablaze' and 'The true paradise'.
Fols. 34-52 are blank.
Date
1913
Language
English
Physical extent
52 Leaves
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Collection contents
Literary papers of James Elroy Flecker
Notebook of verse entitled 'The Rose Tree in Time's Garden…'
