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Add MS 88907/7/14/15
- Record Id:
- 041-000001880
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000001608
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000144.0x000243
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 88907/7/14/15
- Title:
- M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Moore, Nicholas
- Scope & Content:
-
Letter (1 sheet typescript, incomplete, 1 November, 1942) from Moore to Tambimuttu, with various comments on Poetry London.
Letter (typescript, 29 April, year not indicated - ?1941) from Moore to Tambimuttu, submitting the following poems (typescript):
- 'A Disquisition on Peace' (comprising 6 parts: 'Rumination in a March Rain', 'A Celebration for Mayday', 'Like Peacocks or Like Dogs', 'Romantic Morning of Fires', 'Rumination on a Wartime Saturday', and 'Who Talked of Animals? Who Breathed of Men?');
- 'The Horns of Wind';
- 'A Matter of Language';
- 'Love and the Biscuit-Box';
- 'Goodnight to Charing Cross';
- 'Foresworn, forespun, and like a bun I went...';
- 'Go through ports of ruin...';
- 'O daily ride, my star...'.
Other poems (typescript):
- 'Details left undiscovered...';
- 'Like a director of a private film...';
- 'Is there left now no silver to the stars...';
- 'No praise enough for one who writes of beauty...';
- 'Now More And More That Thoughts of Arms Oppress';
- 'Noah';
- 'Writing improbable stories on the walls of the asylum...';
- 'The rare poet achieves...';
- 'It is better that I dally with angels...';
- 'With the ill wreaths that time has given you...';
- 'A Wish in Season';
- 'Sunday Evening';
- 'A Salutation for Theodore Dreiser';
- 'I wanted a hairdresser and so I married a bitch...';
- 'Wonder, the child's first fist...';
- 'An Elegy to Captains';
- 'Nobility and the Pear'.
In addition, the following reviews and articles (typescript):
- review of Richard Eberhart, Song and Idea (1942);
- 'I Sing of Montagu Norman' (open letter to Tambimuttu for publication);
- 'Going West', a review of volumes by Robert Herring, Henry Treece, A L Rowse and Ruthven Todd;
- 'The State of Modern Criticism', published in Poetry London, 3:11 (1947), pp. 59-65.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000001608
033-000001648
036-000001649
040-000001865
041-000001880 - Is part of:
- Add MS 88907 : The Papers of Meary James Thurairajah Tambimuttu
Add MS 88907/7-13 : M J T Tambimuttu: Poetry London and Editions Poetry London
Add MS 88907/7 : M J T Tambimuttu: Editorial Correspondence
Add MS 88907/7/14 : M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondents Marshall - Mushin
Add MS 88907/7/14/15 : M J T Tambimuttu: Correspondent Moore, Nicholas - Hierarchy:
- 032-000001608[0002]/033-000001648[0001]/036-000001649[0014]/040-000001865[0015]/041-000001880
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 88907
- Record Type (Level):
- Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1941
- End Date:
- 1947
- Date Range:
- [1941]-[1947]
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- 70 sheets.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Moore, Nicholas, poet, 1918-1986