- NLW MS 22478E.
- File
- 1949-1967
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Cyclostyled radio scripts, including poetry readings, and talks, 1949-1967, by Vernon Watkins or relating to him and his work.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Cyclostyled radio scripts, including poetry readings, and talks, 1949-1967, by Vernon Watkins or relating to him and his work.
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 An Epic', apparently unpublished.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Autograph and typescript drafts, 1929-1932, of an unpublished collection of stories and verse produced by Vernon Watkins in collaboration with two friends from Cambridge, one of whom prepared the lino-cut illustrations.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).
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Exercise book containing a draft poem, [1920x1939], by Vernon Watkins entitled 'Taliesin', apparently unpublished (ff. 2-4).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
Autograph and typescript notes and drafts, 1947-1967, for talks and lectures by Vernon Watkins on subjects including the translation of poetry, poetry in English, including his own, and the art of Ceri Richards.
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Notebook, 1933, containing drafts of apparently unpublished poem sequences by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Harz Mountains'.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Notebook, 1933, containing drafts of apparently unpublished poem sequences by Vernon Watkins entitled 'The Harz Mountains'.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
Autograph drafts, 1935-1938, by Vernon Watkins of 'The Influences. A Masque' (1976), performed at the Little Theatre, Swansea, July 1939.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Typescript drafts, 1935-1947, by Vernon Watkins of 'The Influences. A Masque' (see also NLW MS 22466E), including the text of the stage version performed at the Little Theatre, Swansea, July 1939 (ff. 154-170), later used for publication (see Vernon Watkins, The Influences (Hayes: Bran's Head Books, 1976)).
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book containing draft poems, 1927-1928, apparently unpublished, composed by Vernon Watkins for a sequence entitled 'The Prisoners'.
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'.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Autograph and typescript drafts of translations and plays, [1940s]-[1967], by Vernon Watkins, including 'The Salzburg Great World Theatre', [1963], a typescript draft of a translation from the German of Hofmannsthal's play, 'Das Salzburger grosse Welttheater' (ff. 13-63).
It was published, with some revisions, as 'The Salzburg Great Theatre of the World' in Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Selected Plays and Libretti, ed. by Michael Hamburger (New York, 1963), pp. 79-172. Also included are translations from the German, most apparently unpublished, of poems by Rilke, [1948] (f. 2), Theodor Storm, 1962, 1966 (ff. 3-4), Friederich Hölderlin, [1960x1967] (ff. 5-9), and Eduard Mörike, [1960x1967] (f. 12), and a translation from the French of the first seven verses of François Villon's 'Le Petit Testament', [1960x1967] (ff. 10-11); drafts of parts of 'The Island' (ff. 64-75) and 'The Eclipse' (ff. 76-78), two proposed plays by Watkins, [1940x1967]; a verse 'Epilogue for a play', [1940x1967] (ff. 79-80); and 'A Book from Venice', 1948, a poem by Watkins (published in Botteghe Oscure, 2 (1948), 270-1) (f. 2 verso). The translation of Storm's 'Cats' (f. 3) was published in TLS, 9 March 1962, p. 162.
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
Twelve letters, 1949-1967, from Vernon Watkins to various correspondents, together with eleven letters, 1940-1941, to Watkins from J. R. Ackerley, chiefly concerned with the poet's work.
Ackerley, J. R. (Joe Randolph), 1896-1967
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Incomplete autograph and typescript drafts, [?1920s]-[1940s], of 'Susanna. A Masque' by Vernon Watkins (ff. 1-38), together with fragmentary autograph drafts of a verse dramatisation of the story of Judith and Holofernes (ff. 39-52), and a dramatic fragment in prose and verse, 'The Dog's Head' (f. 53), all apparently unpublished.
Part of Vernon Watkins manuscripts
Exercise book, 1938, of Vernon Watkins, containing drafts of translations from German of eight poems by Theodor Storm (ff. 2-4), Rilke (ff. 5-8) and Novalis (ff. 10-11).
Four of the poems (ff. 2-3, 5, 8) were published in Vernon Watkins, Selected Verse Translations (London, 1977), pp. 70-1, 73.
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).