- NLW MS 22469E.
- File
- 1933-1966
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1933-1966, by Vernon Watkins of verse translations from Greek, Italian and French poetry, all published in Selected Verse Translations (1977).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1933-1966, by Vernon Watkins of verse translations from Greek, Italian and French poetry, all published in Selected Verse Translations (1977).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Typescript drafts, 1947-1951, of verse translations by Vernon Watkins of Heinrich Heine's cycle 'Die Nordsee', published as Heinrich Heine, The North Sea (London: Faber and Faber, 1955).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Miscellaneous autograph and typescript drafts, 1931-1967, of shorter poems by Vernon Watkins, all apparently unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Miscellaneous autograph and typescript drafts, 1924-1930, of shorter, apparently unpublished poems by Vernon Watkins.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1938-1965, of two long poems by Vernon Watkins, apparently unpublished, at one time part of a group entitled 'Three Poems of the Sea'.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Notebook containing draft poems, 1942, by Vernon Watkins, apparently mainly unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Looseleaf notebook, 1936, containing prose and verse impressions by Vernon Watkins composed during a visit to Spain (ff. 1-42), together with draft poems inspired by a visit to Austria, all apparently unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Notebook containing drafts, 1934, of apparently unpublished poems by Vernon Watkins, with a note in his hand, 'Ramblings towards Poems' (f. 1).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Notebook containing drafts, 1934, of poems by Vernon Watkins, all apparently unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing Vernon Watkins's journal of travels in Belgium and Germany in 1931, together with draft poems, 1931-1936, all apparently unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing draft poems, 1927, apparently unpublished, composed by Vernon Watkins during a stay in Rome, some being related to those in NLW MSS 22444B and 22459E.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1937-1967, of poems by Vernon Watkins included in The Ballad of the Outer Dark (1979).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1935-1967, of poems by Vernon Watkins, mostly published in The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd (1941), The Lady with the Unicorn (1948), Cypress and Acacia (1959), Affinities (1962), Fidelities (1968), Uncollected Poems (1969), I That Was Born in Wales (1976) and The Breaking of the Wave (1979).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Manuscript and typescript drafts by Vernon Watkins for poems published in Uncollected Poems (London, 1969).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Manuscript and typescript drafts by Vernon Watkins for poems published in Fidelities (1968).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Manuscript and typescript drafts by Vernon Watkins for poems published in Affinities (1962).
Drafts for Ballad of the Mari Lwyd, etc.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Manuscript and typescript drafts by Vernon Watkins for poems in Ballad of the Mari Lwyd and Other Poems (1941), The Lamp and the Veil (1945), The Lady with the Unicorn (1948), The Death Bell: Poems and Ballads (1954), and Cypress and Acacia (1959).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Five manuscript and two typescript letters, 30 November 1956-10 September 1957, from Wystan [Hugh] Auden, Forio d'Ischia, near Naples, and Oxford, to Vernon Watkins (ff. 1-7), together with one poem by Auden (f. 8).
The letters concern the choices and alternative choices for Poetry Book Society recommendations, the judges of which were Auden, Watkins and Vita Sackville-West; Auden refers to works by Thom Gunn, Roy Campbell, Theodore Roethke, Edmund Blunden and Louis MacNeice. Enclosed with the final letter is a typescript copy of Auden's poem 'The More Loving One' (see Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957 (London, 1966), p. 282).
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Typescript drafts, 1941-1963, of published works by Vernon Watkins, comprising two poems, 'Discoveries' (see The Ballad of the Mari Lwyd (1941)), and 'The Salmon' (see Uncollected Poems (1969)) (ff. 1-2); a prose translation of a play by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, 'The Salzburg Great World Theatre' (see Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Selected Plays and Libretti, ed. by Michael Hamburger (1963)) (ff. 3-49); and a foreword, 1963, to Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age and Dream Days (1964) (ff. 50-57).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts, 1929-1932, of an unpublished collection of stories and verse produced by Vernon Watkins in collaboration with two friends from Cambridge, one of whom prepared the lino-cut illustrations. Also included is a verse fragment of a Fairy Comic Opera entitled 'Garden of Chimaera' (ff. 127-32).