BLUNDEN (EDMUND) Autograph manuscripts of two poems, one signed: (i) Autograph draft of his poem titled 'The Season Reopens', c.24 lines including significant rewritten and deleted passages preserving reconsidered readings, beginning 'A lover we must have and a clock in the tower/ Looking over the tombs, the tithebarn, the bower...', one page, dust-staining, creased, short tear in blank area at head, 8vo (226 x 145mm.), [n.p., n.d.] (ii) Autograph manuscript of his poem titled 'Thus Far', signed ('Edmund Blunden') at foot, 15 lines, beginning 'In glades where frost is ambushed in the ferns,/ In the low meadow dipping to the stream...' and ending 'Ah, that prayer,/ Answered, would leave but word and water there...', one page, dust-staining and marks, creased at fold, 4to (230 x 178mm.), [n.p., n.d.] (2) Footnotes: 'The Season Reopens', later 'The Season Opens', was first published in The Medical Bulletin for July 1952 and was reprinted in The Book of Cricket Verse, 1953, and in Poems of Many Years, 1957. The deleted passages are presumably unrecorded. 'Thus Far' was first published in The Poems, 1914-1930, and also in The Adelphi in July 1924 and in a number of collections with the different reading in the twelfth line of 'fountain' for 'primal' in this manuscript. Provenance: Bonhams, 'The Roy Davids Collection, Part III: Poetry: Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets, Volume I: A-K', 8 May 2013, lot 55; private collection, U.K. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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