- NLW MS 23753C.
- File
- [1920x1939]
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing a draft poem, [1920x1939], by Vernon Watkins entitled 'Taliesin', apparently unpublished (ff. 2-4).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing a draft poem, [1920x1939], by Vernon Watkins entitled 'Taliesin', apparently unpublished (ff. 2-4).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing drafts of a poem, 1924, composed by Vernon Watkins during his year at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and apparently unpublished (ff. 48-54 verso, 57 recto-verso).
The volume also contains notes, 1924, on the Epistle to the Ephesians (ff. 1-11).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1930-1964 and undated, of shorter poems by Vernon Watkins, almost all apparently unpublished.
Two poems, 'Note towards a poem' (f. 74) and 'There is a pattern...' (f. 75) appeared in Poetry Wales, 12.4 (Spring 1977), 38, 43.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, [1930s]-1967, of poems by Vernon Watkins, almost all apparently unpublished.
There are copies of both short and long poems, as well as fragments, including multiple drafts of 'The Birth to Destruction', 1937-1947 (ff. 6-17), 'The Moth', 1952-1966 (ff. 55-89, thirty-seven drafts), 'The Will', 1960-1961 (ff. 93-100), 'The Melodramatic', 1965-1967 (ff. 101-112), and 'The Fall of Sodom', [1960x1967] (ff. 285-300), and a number of apparently different poems on the theme of 'Taliesin', 1938 (ff. 18-33). 'The Measure Moves' (ff. 70 verso, 72 verso, 73 verso, 75 verso) and 'The Guest' (f. 223 verso) appeared in Fidelities (London, 1968), pp. 26, 96.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Notebook, [?1948]-1967, of Vernon Watkins, containing bibliographical lists of his poems published in Italy (inside front cover, f. 1) and poems and translations sent for publication in America (ff. 1 verso-11).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book, [?1941]-1967, of Vernon Watkins, containing bibliographical lists of his published prose (f. 3), of poems published in periodicals and anthologies (ff. 88 verso-96, 97 verso-98 verso) and of translations (ff. 96 verso-97).
The volume also contains transcripts, entitled 'Plotinus - on the Essence of the Soul' (ff. 36-40), of parts of the Fourth Ennead of Plotinus (see Plotinus, On the nature of the soul, being the fourth Ennead, trans. from the Greek by S. MacKenna (London, 1924), pp. 4-56 passim); and a transcript of the poem beginning 'The poet, Owen Hanrahan, under a bush of may' (f. 41) from 'Red Hanrahan's Curse' by Yeats (see W. B. Yeats, Stories of Red Hanrahan (Dundrum, Dublin, 1904 [recte 1905], pp. 36-38).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Printed diary for 1966, containing a few notes of appointments from July onwards.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing draft poems, 1927-1928, apparently unpublished, composed by Vernon Watkins for a sequence entitled 'The Prisoners'.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing drafts by Vernon Watkins of two long poems entitled 'Youth Confined: Extracts from an Unfinished Poem', chiefly composed in 1928, and 'Fragments for a Humorous Poem', both apparently unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Notebook, 1933, containing drafts of apparently unpublished poem sequences by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Harz Mountains'.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Notebook, 1933, containing drafts of apparently unpublished poem sequences by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Harz Mountains'.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Notebook containing one draft poem, 1937, by Vernon Watkins, untitled and apparently unpublished, together with a partial transcript by him of 'Call unto Death' by D. H. Lawrence.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing untitled draft poems, [c. 1941], by Vernon Watkins, all apparently unpublished, together with 'Carol', a verse translation from French, published in Selected Verse Translation (1977).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing drafts, 1933, by Vernon Watkins of apparently unpublished poems entitled 'Barents' and 'Pulchritudo'.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing a draft poem, 1928, by Vernon Watkins entitled 'Repton. An Epic', apparently unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1946-1967, and photocopies of poems by Vernon Watkins chosen by Ruth Pryor and Gwen Watkins for inclusion in The Ballad of the Outer Dark (1979), together with draft introduction and notes by Ruth Pryor, and correspondence, 1976-1978, relating to publication.
Watkins, Gwen
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing a single draft poem, 1941, by Vernon Watkins.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, [1920s]-[1950s], by Vernon Watkins of a long, apparently unpublished poem entitled 'Ballad of the Deluge'.
The Prisoners in the Green Land
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph draft, [c. 1927], by Vernon Watkins of a long poem entitled 'The Prisoners in the Green Land. A Symphony'.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1937-1943, of a long, apparently unpublished poem by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Sleeper'.