‘The New Testament of Jean de Calais’. This forms appendix 3 of the drafts above. Typewritten in the form of a book with the imprint London: Agenda Editions, 1985. Originally published in Agenda, vol. 19, no. 2/3 (Summer 1982). Two cards of poems by Dale ‘Sparrow’ and ‘Gifts’, published in the B...
Published text of The Seasons of Cankam, inscribed ‘Readings copy’ and with addition poems added in manuscript. With notes from Dale’s diary from 21 Jun to 12 Dec 1969 on his work on the translation, a draft contract of 1969 between Dale and Subbiah, a letter of 1971 from Subbiah to Dale, relatin...
Incomplete word-processed page proofs of part of ‘Purgatory’, foliated 363, 367, 384-426, 428-430, 432-447. It is uncertain whether this was prepared by Éditions Guernica or Anvil Press. This shows changes from the above, and has further manuscript amendments and highlighted sections, which are ...
Printed text of The Legacy and Other Poems. (London: Agenda Editions I, 1971), with an incomplete set of page proofs, amended in manuscript for a revised version which appears in The Legacy, the Testament & Other Poems of François Villon, published in 1973.
Word-processed printer’s copy, with a few manuscript amendments. Leaves foliated 1-78 are on one shade of paper, the following leaves, on a different shade of paper, comprise only leaves numbered 82, 85, 87, 97, 101, 111, 114-115, 117-118, and a mixture of numbered and unnumbered leaves to 131.
‘Dante: the Divine Comedy … a terza rima version by Peter Dale'
Scope & Content:
Publication was first agreed between Dale and Éditions Guernica of Montreal in 1989, and although Guernica sent Dale a typewritten draft of the text in 1990 (that of ‘Hell’ is not in the collection), matters did not progress, and although Dale proposed in 1995 joint publication with Anvil Press, ...