Unpublished late verse and prose
Dep. c. 315/2
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Unpublished late verse and prose
Shelfmark
Dep. c. 315/2
Summary
Includes:
Autograph and typescript drafts of a book on 'Sea', n.d., with various rough notes [1956].
Bound notebook containing drafts of poems and prose, 1962.
Bound notebook containing drafts of poems, plans for selections of his poems in Penguin Selected Poems, with draft of autobiographical preface, 1962.
Autograph and typescript draft for review of the New English Bible, 1961.
Autograph drafts for a speech on William Butler Yeats, 1963.
Autograph index for the new Appendices to William Shakespeare, 1964.
Bound exercise book containing 'Lines for the gathering of sailing ships in the Harbour of New York City in 1964' and other drafts of poems, 1964.
Other loose fragments, such as 'Lines in the memory of Margaret Babington', n.d., writing on Thomas Lamont, and an envelope with some poems printed in In Glad Thanksgiving, 1966-1967.
Date
[1956]-1967, n.d.
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (3 folders)
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Collection contents
Autograph drafts and copies of unpublished works and works printed in ephemeral publications
Unpublished late verse and prose
