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- Record Id:
- 040-001957421
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001957410
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000671.0x000264
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Clodd/Raine Papers. Vol. viii. Notebook containing drafts of poems, many published in The Pythoness and Other Poems; [1940s?] . Autograph. The cover is inscribed, 'Over the Mountain'; some pages have been excised and many of the items have been identified by a hand other than Raine's.
190 x 130 mm.
1.ff. 3r-4r. Poem beginning, 'The mind is strange…', published as 'The Tutelary Spirit'.
2.ff. 4v-5r. Notes concerning dreams experienced by Raine.
3.ff. 5v-14v. Poem entitled 'Woman to Lover'.
4.ff. 15r-20r. Poem entitled 'Blue' or 'Blue Sky'.
5.ff. 20v-21r. Notes concerning dreams experienced by Raine entitled, 'Two Strange Dreams'.
6.ff. 21v. Poem beginning, 'Moving without wings…'.
7.ff. 22r-26v, 27v. Poem beginning, 'That bright invisible paradigm…', entitled 'Killing the Red' on f. 26v and published as 'Quenching the Red'.
9.ff. 27r, 28r. Poem beginning, 'When we had discovered that there was no way to the White Mountain…', published as, 'A Message to Michael'.
10.ff. 28v-29r. Poem beginning, 'Fiends tear me to blood…', published as, 'Nativity'.
11. f. 29v. Fragment of an unidentified poem, possibly a continuation of 'Nativity'.
12.ff. 30r-31r. Poem entitled 'For Michael', published as 'A Message to Michael'.
13.f.31v-33r. Poem published as 'Nativity'.
14.33v-34r. Poem beginning, 'I loved you because you are myself…'
15.34r-35r. Quotations from William Blake, with references.
16.ff. 35r-38r. Poem beginning, 'It was as if the rim was taken off the horizon…'; entitled 'As If Imagined' on f. 37v and published as 'The Transit'.
17.ff. 38v-40r. Poem beginning, 'They are becoming less solid every day…'.
18.f. 41r. Poem beginning, 'Descend lower…'.
19.f. 41v-42r. Poem beginning, 'The whisperer has been clearer today…', possibly a continuation of the previous poem.
20.f. 42v?-48r. Poem entitled 'The Traveller'.
21.ff. 48v-56r. Poem entitled 'The Journey'.
22.ff. 56v-59r. Poem entitled 'Psyche and Love' or 'The Annunciation', published as 'Psyche and the God.'
23.ff. 59v-60r. Poem beginning 'I looked into that other sky…'.
24.ff. 60v-63r. Poem beginning, 'It was as if the ring had gone from the horizon…', published as 'The Transit'.
25.ff. 63v-67r. Poem entitled 'The World'.
26.ff. 67r- 69v. Poem beginning, 'If the pool were still…', published as 'Peace of Mind'. The poem appears to be interspersed with another beginning, 'Since I covered myself from head to foot…'.
27. ff. 70r-73r, 74v. Poem beginning, 'In the stable where my son was born…'. published as 'The End of Love'.
28.ff. 73v-74r. Notes.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001957410
036-001957420
040-001957421 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88620-88674 : Clodd/Raine Papers.88620-88674. Papers of Kathleen Raine (b. 1908, d. 2003), poet, collected by Harold Alexander (Alan) Clodd…
Add MS 88627-88631 : B. Drafts and Proofs of Raine's Poetry.
Add MS 88627 : Clodd/Raine Papers. Vol. viii. Notebook containing drafts of poems, many published in The Pythoness and Other Poems; [1940s?]… - Hierarchy:
- 032-001957410[0002]/036-001957420[0001]/040-001957421
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88620-88674
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1940
- End Date:
- 1949
- Date Range:
- [1940s?]
- Era:
- CE
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