Worksheets of poems and prose pieces by Gavin Ewart

This material is held atHull University Archives, Hull History Centre

  • Reference
    • GB 50 U DP163/29
  • Dates of Creation
    • 20th cent.
  • Physical Description
    • circa 36 items

Scope and Content

Poems:

a) 'A Spell against Fat Girls' (ts.)

b) 'An Afternoon at the Windmill' (ts.)

c) 'Afraid of the Dark' (mss. [2] and ts.)

d) 'Cave-dwellers' (ts.)

e) 'Chelsea in Winter' (ms. and ts.)

f) 'Disillusion' (ts.)

g) 'Extravagence' (ts.)

h) 'Hymn to Proust' (carbon copy)

i) 'John Betjeman's Brighton' (ts.)

j) 'Psycho-analysis' (ts.)

k) 'Public School' (tss.) (2); 'Cambridge 1934' (ts.); 'Miss Twye' (ts.); 'Song' (ts.); 'Sonnet' (ts.); 'Officers' Mess 1942' (ts.)

l) 'Rowlandson Drawings' (ts.) m) 'Sonnet' (ts.)

n) 'Spring Song' (carbon copy)

o) 'Summer Afternoons' (ms.); 'The Gulf of Naples' (ms.)

p) 'Tennysonian Reflections at Barnes Bridge' (carbon copy)

q) 'To a Lady seen walking down Curzon Street' (ms.)

r) 'The Cricketers' Arms' (tss.[3] and carbon copies [2])

s) 'The Poet in 1950' (ts.)

t) 'Two Lovely Children and a Nagging Wife' (ts.)

u) 'When a Beau goes in' (ts.)

v) 'Young Blondes' (carbon copy)

Prose pieces:

w) 'Children of Horizon' (tss.) (2)

x) 'Farewell to the Adclub (Great Britain)' (carbon copy)

y) 'Slopes of Parnassus' (ts.)

z) 'Proclamation to all Teenage Trollops and Masturbating Minxes' (ts.)

aa) 'Who from their labours rest' (ms.)

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