Poem Drafts
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Poem Drafts
Classmark: BC MS 20c Crossley-Holland/2/2/1
Creator(s): Crossley-Holland, Kevin
Date(s): 1957-1965
Size and medium: 5 files
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/18188
Collection group(s): Leeds Poetry | English Literature
Description
These files contain 5 envelopes marked 'A Mess of Poems'. They contain 163 ff of manuscripts and typescripts, including drafts of the following poems:
- On Seeing Ely Cathedral
- That Place is Not Firm
- A Wind Comes
- Smoke
- Scolt Head
- Simplicity
- An Old Man Sits in the Sunlight
- The Sand Boats
- Overy
- Lampost
- Something New
- Spring in Kensington
- On Writing
- In Memoriam
- Suicide in the Snow
- River Vltava at Prague
- This was an evening with glow ...
- You Have Eyes
- Snow
- Knowledge
- Distant Lights Seen From a Bedroom Window
- Pub Peace
- Necessity
- Swanbourne Labourer
- Conflict in a Landscape
- On Hitch-Hiking
- The Sand Boats
- An Awakening
- We cannot always ...
- And now you have gone ...
- Rain Seeds
- Our minds married in a moment ...
- I desire to feel the stone ...
- Can it Be?
- You, My Now
- False Security
- It is quite clear ...
- Afterwards
- Visit to a Dying Man
- Doomsday (Newdigate prize poem)
- Letter From Chandolin
- Cherry Blossom
- Nomads
- When we forsake ...
- Livelong Love
- Jack Frost
- A Small Boy
- Each day we walk ...
- Countenance
- La Musique , by Charles Baudelaire (translation)
- Dedication
- Rain cannot purge zinc streets ...
- Before a Long Parting
- Who is this Man ?
- Now the green blade riseth ...
- Map of Love
- Father and Son
- Hollow Without Warning
- Do Clothes Make the Man?
- Woman, Island
- For my Son
- Wilfred Owen
- A Kind of Intrusion
- Nightsounds
- The Parliament of Fowls
- Words
- Kos
- The Moth
- Craft
- Sorrows
- The Wood, by Per Lange
- The Time-Bomb
- Thinking Aloud
- Hand gripped to hand ...
- Alone, the shortest spaces ...
- In Your Absence
- Job's Comforter
- Storm Siren
- Vows of a November Evening
- The Lore of Ireland Still
- In Memoriam: W.B. Yeats
- Everyone Sang
- Caedmon
- You
- Poem for Caroline
- After Silence
- The Quarrel
- Letter from Glan Conway
- Contempt November: A Last Visit to the Hospital
- In Burnham-Overy-Staithe
- The Passing of Youth, translated by Crossley-Holland from the French of Henri de Regnier
- Bryanston
- Another Dream
- I know times when every pebble ...
- In Memory of a Labourer
- Meeting Place
- Pregnancy Confirmed
- Advice while you are staying ...
- I'll harness my art to the stars ...
- Leaning Into The Wind
- Where I lose ...
- The Wanderer
- A Visit to the Dentist
- Moving House
- Giants
- The Back of my Hand
- The Owl and the Pulpit
- The long day shrivels ...
- Souls and Poems
- The Thrush
- The Demolition of a Church
- The Strolling Player
- A Riddle
- A Visit to the Dentist
- The Wind
- The Sculptor Remembers
- Lolita and Kindred Spirits
- A Reunion
- Father and Son
- The morning goes on ...
- Maldon 991
- The Room
- Night ...
- These lines ...
- I stare at him ...
- Shed one skin ...
- North Norfolk, June 1964
- Storm on South Bank
- Some Poet on his Work.
- Czech Charivari (Prose)
- One Evenin'
- Review of Olaf Ruhen's White Man's Shoes (1960).The last envelope also contains ms list 'Magazines who take poetry'; a copy of the magazine 'Oxford Opinion' (Sunday 14th November 1959), with Crossley-Holland's poem 'Nomads' on p. 16, and letters from Laura Findlay (23 Nov 1959) and Mario Rinvolucri inserted; 1 sheet of music with song lyrics by Crossley-Holland and music by Keith Bowen (songs: 'Jack Frost', 'Can it be?', and 'Man on a Tightrope Walking a Ravine').
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