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Add MS 88931/2/6/4
- Record Id:
- 040-001000980
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000897929
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001202.0x000355
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88931/2/6/4
- Title:
- Typescript: 'Nonsence Poems'
- Scope & Content:
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Loose leaves found in envelope inscribed 'For Maeve' (envelope has printed label 'Ordinary Level Human Biology, Paper I' dated 19 Nov 1975). There are multiple copies of many of the poems. There are autograph corrections to one of the typescripts for 'It Worries Me to Know'. Undated.
Poems:
- ‘O’er seas that have no beaches’;
- ‘”Come break the news to me, Sweet horse’;
- ‘An angry cactus does no good’;
- ‘I cannot give the reasons,’;
- ‘The trouble with geraniums’;
- ‘O Love! O death! O ecstasy!’;
- ‘O here it is! and there it is!’;
- ‘I have my price – it’s rather high’;
- ‘Lean sideways on the wind, and if it bears’;
- ‘The Hideous Root’;
- ‘Of pygmies, palms and pirates’;
- ‘Squat Ursula’;
- ‘O Little Fly’;
- ‘Leave the stronger’;
- ‘She then complied’;
- ‘How good it is to be alone’;
- ‘But it has gone and for a time’;
- ‘She stared at him as hard as she’;
- ‘Fish or fowl, it’s all the same’;
- ‘It Worries Me to Know’;
- ‘An old and crumbling parapet’;
- ‘Little Spider’;
- ‘There was a man came up to me’ [later entitled ‘Tintinnabulum’];
- ‘It is most best,’.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000897929
036-001000926
037-001000974
040-001000980 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88931 : Mervyn Peake Archive
Add MS 88931/2 : Poetry
Add MS 88931/2/6 : Nonsence
Add MS 88931/2/6/4 : Typescript: 'Nonsence Poems' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000897929[0002]/036-001000926[0006]/037-001000974[0004]/040-001000980
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88931
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1955
- End Date:
- 1965
- Date Range:
- c 1960s-c 1970s
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)