Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of thirteen poems by David Wright, with a letter to Paul Potts. ca. 1947-1983.

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Autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of thirteen poems by David Wright, with a letter to Paul Potts. ca. 1947-1983.

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Comprises: (1) Numerous autograph manuscript and typescript drafts of seven poems by David Wright, namely, 'George Barker at seventy', 'Lines for Donald Davie', 'Meetings', 'Owl', 'A present for Charles Causley', 'Properties', and 'Remembering Tennyson', with many revisions, and accompanied by typewritten slips giving details of the publications in which they were subsequently printed, the dates ranging from 1981 to 1983; and (2) six typescript drafts of other poems by David Wright, namely, an extract from 'Atlantic Eclogue', 'Fortunate as Ulysses', 'A Landscape of Africa', 'Two Love Lyrics', 'Silenus', and 'No Money but the Summer', with some manuscript revisions. These poems are listed in a covering typescript letter from Wright to Paul [Potts], undated, but probably ca. 1947, on which the recipient has written a partial reply in manuscript.

1 folder; manuscript and typescript.

Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Brotherton Library, University of Leeds

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Wright, David, 1920-1994

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David (John Murray) Wright, the poet and writer, was born on 23 February 1920 in Johannesburg, South Africa. He became deaf at the age of seven, was brought to England at the age of fourteen to attend the Northampton School for the Deaf, and graduated from Oriel College, Oxford, in 1942. Between 1965 and 1967 he was a Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds. His first poetry collection, Poems, was published by Poetry London in 1949. He subsequently published numerous other books of p...

Potts, Paul, 1911-1990

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Paul Potts (1911-1990) has been called both "the people's poet" and "one of the most shamefully neglected" poets of the 20th century. During the 1930s he made his living selling leftist poems on the street of London. His later poems include Instead of a Sonnet (1944), and A Ballad for Britain on May Day (1945), though his best known prose work is the autobiographical Dante Called You Beatrice (1960). Potts' work regularly appeared in leading poetry magazines of the day, but despite ...