WATKINS PAPERS. Vols. VIII, IX. Poems collected in Affinities (1962); 1940-1961. Poems not represented here by drafts or fair copies are 'The Interval', 'Vine', 'Affinities', 'Sonnet: to Certain Anonymous Poets', 'Muse, Poet and Fountain', 'Ode to T. S. Eliot', 'To Hölderlin', and 'Browning in Venice'. Two volumes.
Scope & Content:
Vernon Phillips Watkins, poet: Poetry ENGLISH: Poems by Vernon Phillips Watkins: 1932-1961, n.d.: Autogr. and typewritten, partly draft.
WATKINS PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. i+217). Includes (ff. 49-58) drafts of a poem variously entitled 'Dialogue' and 'Argument between Poet and Muse', said by Watkins ( Add. 54167, f. 46) to be related to 'Demands of the Muse' (Add. 54164, f. 27).
WATKINS PAPERS. Vol. X (ff. i+63). Poems collected in Fidelities (1968), along with some uncollected and unpublished poems; 1940-1961. Contents: 1. ff. 1-18. Four poems collected in Fidelities; 1948-1961. These are 'Semele', 'Taliesin in Pwlldu', 'The Colosseum' and 'Resting Places'. For the...
WATKINS PAPERS. Vol. XI (ff. 58). Lists, etc., of the contents of the present collection; 1966, n.d. A copy of R. E. Oldroyd's Index of the Worksheets of the Poems of Vernon Watkins . . . (University of Hull, 1966), is supplemented (ff. 43, 44) by later 'Amendments, Additions and Deletions', and...