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Part of George Barker collection
Blue "Challenge" notebook, 16x8 cm, 100 leaves. (ca. 1964-1967)
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Part of George Barker collection
Blue "Challenge" notebook, 16x8 cm, 100 leaves. (ca. 1964-1967)
Part of George Barker collection
Verse Sheet 1 - poetry anthology from York University, Summer 1967. "Produced by Peter Davies" One of 200 copies. 8 pp. Includes two short pieces by George Barker along with his holograph side note: "There are four more of these to be given later". Enclosure: typed alternate draft of one of Barker's submissions, 1 p.
Part of George Barker collection
MS of The Golden Chains, (ca. 1966-1967) (Published by Faber and Faber, 1968)
Part of George Barker collection
At Thurgarton Church. (ca. 1968-1970) (Published by Trigram Press: London, 1969)
Part of George Barker collection
Blue notebook, approx. 15x10 cm. (ca. 1968)
Towards the middle of notebook are drafts of a different version of the poem At Thurgarton Church, with variants (15 pp.). Also included is "Letters to the Dead" (12 pp.) addressed "To Robert Colquhoun" (1914-1962). In addition, there are comments on poetry and epigrams on poets including: Cyril Connolly, Stephen Spender, Roy Fuller, A. Alvarez, Cecil, Eliot, Louis, MacNeice, Kathleen Raine, Middleton Murray, David Gascoygne, Dylan Thomas, A.S. Frazer, John Betjeman, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, Robert Lowell, Nabokov, Richard Wilbur, Roethke, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin and Ezra Pound.
Part of George Barker collection
Address book 10x7 cm. Red leather cover with "London" in gilt.
10 pp. of addresses; 2 pp. "Battle Hymn of the New Republic"; 7 pp. jottings; 6 poem fragments.
Part of George Barker collection
Blue "Challenge" notebook 17X10 cm (ca. Rome, 1964)
Holograph entries including: "Battle Hymn of the New Republic"; "To Francis Bacon"; "In Memoriam Marion Barker" (mother); letter to "Martin"; "Epitaph to the Sincile of the Painter John Newton"; "The Kingdoms of the Queen..." pp. 26-27; two draft letters to "Oscar [Williams]"; "Then for My Sins to America"; a verse letter to "Dear John"; a letter to "David" about publishing; "To Christopher"; "O Valley of Aviccia" pp. 91-93; "The Stabat Mater " pp. 93-98
Part of George Barker collection
Dreams of a Summer Night - 20x13. 68 leaves, unbound (ca. 1965)
Typescript with extensive holo corrections in ink. Typed on title page: "DREAMS OF A SUMMER NIGHT/GEORGE BARKER/final corrected version" followed by penciled initials "GB". Additional remarks in preliminary pages, as well as a stylized female head portrait in ink. MS differs from the published Faber and Faber 1966 published version.
"Experimental sketches for Marine Water Engine designed by George Barker 1963"
Part of George Barker collection
"Experimental sketches for Marine Water Engine designed
by George Barker 1963"11 leaves of sketches with notes.
Correspondence - Faber and Faber
Part of George Barker collection
Correspondence - Faber and Faber, 22 tls, July 13, 1935 to Oct. 25, 1956, 24 pp. plus an enclosed 3 leaves, folded to 6 pp., mock-up of preliminary pages to the Collected Poems of George Barker.