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Poems, and translations of poetry

Dep. c. 1114

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Title

Poems, and translations of poetry

Shelfmark

Dep. c. 1114

Summary

Manila folder entitled, 'After 1960 and Translations etc', containing translations of poetry from French, German, Italian and Latin, and the following original poems:

'Beatitudes', typescript, initialled and dated, 1952

'Can Light Be Golden?', manuscript, Autumn 1976

'Change and Motion', typescript, 1977

'The Clock', manuscript

'Concerning Love Poetry', manuscript, 1983

'Embers', carbon copy of typescript with manuscript corrections

'The Eurythmist', manuscript, Jan. 1952

'Exegi Monumentum', manuscript

Expression', manuscript and typescript, Spring 1977

'Fan Letters', manuscript

'From Memory', manuscript, 1984

'Gizeh', manuscript, 1981, and carbon copy of typescript

'G2', manuscript

'I Had An Aunt', typescript

'In', manuscript, and musical setting by Mark Mytton

'It fades', manuscript

'Jubilee', annotated typescript, Summer 1977

'Landfall', typescript, 5 Sept. 1984

'Leoni Keating', manuscript in Latin

'Love of Woman', manuscript

'The Meaning of Love', manuscript

'Moments Before Sleep', manuscript, Summer 1976

'Ne Plus Ultra', manuscript

'Night and Morning', typescript

'Old Age', manuscript

'Old Iron', manuscript

'Owen Barfield', manuscript

'Passionate Love', manuscript

'The Point', manuscript

'Polarity', manuscript dated Spring 1978, and annotated typescript

'Posterity', typescript

'Prayer', typescript

'Psalm 23 (modernised for an ongoing Church)', manuscript with notes, n.d.

'Retirement', carbon copy of manuscript, Nov. 1984

'Risen', two manuscripts, one signed, June 1953

'Rust', annotated typescript

'Sacrament', typescript

'She', typescript, Summer 1978

'Spurlos Versenkt', manuscript

'Thoughts in a London Teashop', manuscript, 1981

'To -', manuscript

'To the Words that won't Come', manuscript

'TV Programmes', manuscript and carbon copy of same

'Unison', typescript and annotated carbon copy

'Washing of Feet', manuscript

'The Year Makes Answer', manuscript, Nov. 1969

'1982', two manuscript copies

untitled poem, beginning, 'The case of Anthony Blunt', 21 Nov. 1979, carbon copy of typescript, sent to The Times

untitled poem, beginning, 'Come where I am. Be present now, I say', manuscript

untitled poem, beginning, 'Freedom is all. Discovery, you find', manuscript

untitled poem, beginning, 'I have taken the bread', manuscript, with the newspaper cutting which inspired it, ( The Times, 14 Feb. 1978)

untitled poem, beginning, 'Light in the World', manuscript

untitled poem, beginning, 'Out of the mouth of the emptied of purpose', manuscript, 1982

untitled poem, beginning, 'Pay, if you owe me aught, with words unspoken', manuscript, 1981

untitled poem, beginning, 'Sensual? Not so. Greedy for tenderness', manuscript

untitled poem dedicated, 'To Richard Hocks, in expectation of a voyage across the Atlantic with him', manuscript, n.d.

untitled poem, beginning, 'Why do I still remember that old dream', manuscript

untitled poem, beginning, 'Wisdom affirms that summer's dreaming days', manuscript, Summer 1976

Date

1952-1984

Language

English

Physical extent

1 folder

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Collection contents

Archive of (Arthur) Owen Barfield

Literary manuscripts and notes

Poetry

Poems, and translations of poetry

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