Typescript, with author’s corrections, of “Sailors on the Moving Land.” By Vernon Watkins. 19--?

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Typescript, with author’s corrections, of “Sailors on the Moving Land.” By Vernon Watkins. 19--?

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/7133105849

The poem "Sailors on the Moving Land," typescript with manuscript corrections by author.

4 leaves;

eng,

University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Department of Special Collections

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6355059

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zw2r9c (person)

Vernon Phillips Watkins was born in Wales, and lived nearly his entire life near Swansea. He had written poetry since his youth, and attended Cambridge University for one year before leaving, ultimately taking a job with Lloyd's bank as a clerk. After a serious breakdown, he took a job at a different branch of Lloyd's, staying until he retired in 1966, but refusing advancement--he remained a clerk in order to devote time to his poetry. He became a close friend of Dylan Thomas, and published indi...