WATKINS PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. ii+195). Poems collected in The Lady with the Unicorn (1948); 1938-1947. At f. 73 occurs a typewritten fair copy of the poem 'One Theme', published in The Listener, xxxii (10 Aug. 1944), p. 159.Vernon Phillips Watkins, p... 1938-1947

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WATKINS PAPERS. Vol. III (ff. ii+195). Poems collected in The Lady with the Unicorn (1948); 1938-1947. At f. 73 occurs a typewritten fair copy of the poem 'One Theme', published in The Listener, xxxii (10 Aug. 1944), p. 159.Vernon Phillips Watkins, p... 1938-1947

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Watkins, Vernon Phillips, 1906-1967

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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...