Unpublished poems,

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

  • Reference
    • GB 210 NLW MS 23756E.
  • Alternative Id.
      (alternative) vtls006009679
  • Dates of Creation
    • [1930s]-1967 /
  • Name of Creator
  • Physical Description
    • 309 ff. (foliated 1-308).Guarded and filed at NLW.Some folios damaged, and repaired at NLW.Some folios damaged, and repaired at NLW
  • Location
    • ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Autograph and typescript drafts, [1930s]-1967, of poems by Vernon Watkins, almost all apparently unpublished.
There are copies of both short and long poems, as well as fragments, including multiple drafts of 'The Birth to Destruction', 1937-1947 (ff. 6-17), 'The Moth', 1952-1966 (ff. 55-89, thirty-seven drafts), 'The Will', 1960-1961 (ff. 93-100), 'The Melodramatic', 1965-1967 (ff. 101-112), and 'The Fall of Sodom', [1960x1967] (ff. 285-300), and a number of apparently different poems on the theme of 'Taliesin', 1938 (ff. 18-33). 'The Measure Moves' (ff. 70 verso, 72 verso, 73 verso, 75 verso) and 'The Guest' (f. 223 verso) appeared in Fidelities (London, 1968), pp. 26, 96.

Note

Title based on contents.

Preferred citation: NLW MS 23756E.

Alternative Form Available

Text

Related Material

For another poem on the theme of Taliesin see also NLW MS 23753C.

Additional Information

Published

Personal Names

Taliesin -- Poetry.