II.viii.3. Typescript drafts of poems collected in 'Electric Light',
2000.
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| Summary: | Contains a manuscript draft of the title page (with a working title of 'Red, White and Blue'), and typescript drafts of the poems 'The Perch', 'At Toomebridge', 'The Lupins', 'Out of the Bag' (working title 'Miraculum' crossed out on draft), 'Bann Valley Eclogue', 'Triptych: Time and Again. 1. The Dearest Freshness; 2. Changed Times; Duffy', 'Turpin Song', 'The Border Campaign', 'The Loose Box', 'Seeing The Sick', 'Electric Light', 'A Dream of Solstice', 'Ballynahinch Lake', 'The Clothes Shrine', 'Red, White and Blue', 'Glanmore Eclogue', 'The Gaeltacht', 'Sonnets from Hellas. Into Arcadia; Conkers; Pylos; The Augean Stables; A Hyperborean; Castalian Spring', 'Kosovo Summer', 'Nights of 57' (collected in 'Bodies and Souls'), 'The Real Names', 'In The Afterlife'(collected in 'Bodies and Souls', 'The Little Canticles of Asturias', 'Clonmany To Ahascragh', 'Urlár', 'Sruth', 'A Norman Simile' (collected in 'Ten Glosses'), 'Would They Had Stay'd', 'The Scop', 'On His Work In The English Tongue', 'The Bereaved' (collected in 'Bodies and Souls'), 'Arion', 'Audenesque', 'Carlo' and 'Four Glosses. 1. Party; 2. The Marching Season; Moling's Gloss; The Lesson'. These drafts were sent by Seamus Heaney to Bernard and Jane McCabe. With an attached autograph letter from Heaney to the McCabes, dated Old Christmas Day [6th January] 2000, in which he makes reference to forwarding them the draft of his poetry collection ('Electric Light', then with a working title 'Red, White and Blue')ahead of sending it on to his publishers Faber and Faber. |
| In collection: | McCabe Heaney Collection, 1979-2010 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
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2000.
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| Notes: | 'A Hyperborean' was collected under the title 'To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert'; 'Kosovo Summer' was collected as section two of 'Known World'; 'The Scop' collected under the title 'The Fragment'; all three poems were published in 'Electric Light'. 'Urlar' was published in 'Metre' in Spring/Summer 2000. Physical description: 71 pages, 3 folders. more |
| Arrangement: | Sub-fonds |
