Identity area
Reference code
Davies/Box 1-3/Box 2/13.
Unique identifier
GB 275 Davies/Box 1-3/Box 2/13.
Title
Note to splendid evening ; Chiaroscuro ; Early poems - Gloom.
Date(s)
- c.1960-1984 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 folder, paper.
Context area
Name of creator
(1909-1984)
Biographical history
Entered St John's 1928. Jebb Studentship and Le Bas Prize 1931. BA 1931. Author of English Surrealist's manifesto, 1936 and co-curator of Surrealist Exhibition, London 1936. Surrealist prose poem 'Petron' published 1935. Published three novels 1950-60, 'The Papers of Andrew Melmoth'(1960) being the best known. Appointed College Rat Catcher 1967. Concentrated his critical talents on Wordsworth's poetry for last 20 years of his life, becoming a Trustee of Dove Cottage and having 'Wordsworth and the Worth of Words' published posthumously in 1986.
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Fragment of draft MS, typed, of 'The Wordsworth Primer'. Includes some handwritten notes and photocopies of Wordsworth's poems.