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Add MS 52594
- Record Id:
- 040-002002191
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002002185
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000634.0x0003b9
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 52594
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MODERN LITERARY MSS. Vol. IV. Shakespeare Quartercentenary Poems; circa 1958-1964. Autograph typewritten drafts and fair copies, mostly of poems commissioned for and published in 15 Poems for William Shakespeare, ed. E. W. White, 1964. The poem by Charles Causley on ff. 3-17 is printed in his Collected Poems 1951-1975, 1975, pp. 158-9. Ff. 76-80 were presented by Peter Porter.
Paper; ff. viii+87.
Poetry ENGLISH: Poems published in E. W. White, 15 Poems for William Shakespeare: 1964, circa 1963-1964: Drafts.
includes:
- f. i Roy Broadbent Fuller, poet: Letter to E. W. White: 1964: Photocopy: Autogr.
- f. viii Charles Stanley Causley, poet: Letter to E. W. White: 1964: Typewritten. Photocopy.
- ff. ii-iii David John Murray Wright, poet: Letter to E. W. White: 1964: Typewritten. Photocopy.
- ff. iv-vii Sir Stephen Spender, CBE; author: Letters to E. W. White: 1964: Partly typewritten. Photocopies: Partly autogr.
- ff. 1, 2 Edmund Charles Blunden, poet and critic: Two sonnets on W. Shakespeare: 1964: Autogr. drafts.
- ff. 3-17 Charles Stanley Causley, poet: `A Visit to Stratford': circa 1963-1964: Partly typewritten drafts.: Partly autogr.
- ff. 18-25 Roy Broadbent Fuller, poet: `Sonnet 155': circa 1963-1964: Partly autograph and typewritten drafts.
- ff. 26-41 Derek Walcott, poet: `Goats and Monkeys' and `At Lampfall': circa 1963-1964: Partly typewritten drafts.: Partly autogr. drafts.
- ff. 42-62 Sir Stephen Spender, CBE; author: `Earth-treading stars': circa 1958-1964: Partly typewritten drafts.: Partly autogr. drafts.
- ff. 63-75 William De Witt Snodgrass, poet: `Edmund to Gloucester': circa 1963-1964: Partly typewritten drafts.: Partly autogr.
- ff. 76-80 Peter Porter, poet: `Reading M.N.D. in Form 4B', and `Shakesperian Examples': circa 1963-1964: Partly typewritten drafts.: Partly autogr.
- ff. 81-84 David John Murray Wright, poet: `Message to Dr. Hotson': circa 1963-1964: Partly typewritten drafts: Partly autogr.
- ff. 85-87 Vernon Phillips Watkins, poet: `All compact': circa 1963-1964: Partly typewritten draft.: Partly autogr.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002002185
040-002002191 - Is part of:
- Add MS 52591-52600 : MODERN LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS
Add MS 52594 : MODERN LITERARY MSS. Vol. IV. Shakespeare Quartercentenary Poems; circa 1958-1964. Autograph typewritten drafts and fair copies,… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002002185[0003]/040-002002191
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 52591-52600
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1953
- End Date:
- 1964
- Date Range:
- c 1958-1964
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Custodial History:
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Eric Walter White, writer on music and arts administrator: Commissioned, circa 1963-1964.
ff. 76-80 Peter Porter, poet: Presented, in 1965.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Blunden, Edmund Charles, poet and critic
Causley, Charles Stanley, poet, 1917-2003,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121200798
Fuller, Roy Broadbent, poet, 1912-1991
Porter, Peter Neville Frederick, poet, 1929-2010,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000011480047X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/110876854
Snodgrass, William De Witt, poet, 1926-2009
Spender, Stephen Harold, Knight, poet, 1909-1995
Walcott, Derek Alton, Knight, poet and playwright, 1930-2017
Watkins, Vernon Phillips, poet, 1906-1967
White, Eric Walter, writer on music and arts administrator, 1905-1985
Wright, David John Murray, poet, 1920-1994