File NLW MS 23374E. - Poems,

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NLW MS 23374E.

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Poems,

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  • [c. 1946]-1956 / (Creation)

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i, 111 ff. (blank from f. 107 verso). Notebooks and loose papers, guarded and filed at NLW.

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Manuscript and typescript drafts, [c. 1946]-1956, of poems by Margiad Evans, including penultimate and final drafts of her first published volume of poetry, Poems from Obscurity (London, 1947). Drafts of other published poems, [1953]-[1956], include eleven sonnets published in A Candle Ahead (London, 1956), pp. 32-38 (ff. 71-81), 'The Sufferer' (f. 85; marked 'published in Saskatchewan'), and 'In memory of a little god' (ff. 98-105). Unpublished poems include 'Yesterday and Today' and 'Poem' (ff. 87-89), and 'Cassandra desolated' (ff. 91-97).

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For the sonnets, see also NLW, Margiad Evans Papers 4/78-85; for 'The Sufferer' see also NLW, Margiad Evans Papers 4/32; for 'In memory of a little god' see also NLW MS 23371B; for 'Yesterday and Today' and 'Poem' see also NLW, Margiad Evans Papers 4/51, 97-98; and for 'Cassandra desolated' see also NLW MS 23371B, ff. 31-35.

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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23374E.

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vtls004646266

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Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru = The National Library of Wales

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  • Text: NLW MS 23374E.