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- [1940s]-[1967] (Creation)
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80 ff.
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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 Also included are translations from the German, most apparently unpublished, of poems by Rilke, [1948] (f. 2), Theodor Storm, 1962, 1966 (ff. 3-4), Friederich Hölderlin, [1960x1967] (ff. 5-9), and Eduard Mörike, [1960x1967] (f. 12),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.
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A detailed list of the manuscript's contents may be found in Vernon Watkins Manuscripts: Group II (1988, 2001) (https://archives.library.wales/external_documents/VernonWatkins2.pdf).
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 23762E.
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- Villon, François, b. 1431 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929 -- Translations into English. (Subject)
- Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1875-1926. (Subject)
- Storm, Theodor, 1817-1888. (Subject)
- Hölderlin, Friedrich, 1770-1843 (Subject)
- Villon, François, b. 1431. (Subject)
- Mörike, Eduard, 1804-1875. (Subject)
- Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929. Salzburger Grosse Welttheater. English. (Subject)