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THOMAS, DYLAN. Autograph manuscripts, his working notes for the poem "On a Wedding Anniversary" ("The sky is torn across"...etc.), n.p., the last version dated July 1940. Together 12 pages, 4to, written in pen and pencil on rectos and versos of 9 sheets, numbered in ink 1-9 in the upper corners of the rectos, the first 8 leaves on foolscap paper, the last on a different paper; in flexible cloth binder (removable) and half morocco slipcase with manuscript below.
WORKING MANUSCRIPTS FOR THE POEM "ON A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY"
A most interesting and extensive series of working manuscripts, showing the poem's progress from a rather formless series of random images grouped under the heading "3 1/2 years married" to a carefully shaped four-stanza poem. The final leaf, an interim fair copy with only two revisions, shows that the poet considered the title "On Our Wedding Anniversary." The poem was extensively revised a few years later (see below).
[With:]
D. THOMAS. Autograph manuscript, a fair copy of the early version of "On a Wedding Anniversary," n.p., n.d., 1 page, 4to, in ink on lined paper.
The poem comprises four stanzas of five lines each, beginning "At last in a wrong rain," in which form the poem was first published in Poetry, no. 4 (15 January 1941). This version also appeared in New Poems (Norfolk, Conn., 1943). Thomas reworked the poem considerably, and in Deaths and Entrances (London, 1946), the entire second stanza was dropped, the remaining verses appear in different order and each is shortened by a single line. See Rolph A.86 and Poems, ed. D. Jones, no. 138 and p. 270.
Provenance: James Gilvarry (sale, Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 257).
WORKING MANUSCRIPTS FOR THE POEM "ON A WEDDING ANNIVERSARY"
A most interesting and extensive series of working manuscripts, showing the poem's progress from a rather formless series of random images grouped under the heading "3 1/2 years married" to a carefully shaped four-stanza poem. The final leaf, an interim fair copy with only two revisions, shows that the poet considered the title "On Our Wedding Anniversary." The poem was extensively revised a few years later (see below).
[With:]
D. THOMAS. Autograph manuscript, a fair copy of the early version of "On a Wedding Anniversary," n.p., n.d., 1 page, 4to, in ink on lined paper.
The poem comprises four stanzas of five lines each, beginning "At last in a wrong rain," in which form the poem was first published in Poetry, no. 4 (15 January 1941). This version also appeared in New Poems (Norfolk, Conn., 1943). Thomas reworked the poem considerably, and in Deaths and Entrances (London, 1946), the entire second stanza was dropped, the remaining verses appear in different order and each is shortened by a single line. See Rolph A.86 and Poems, ed. D. Jones, no. 138 and p. 270.
Provenance: James Gilvarry (sale, Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 257).