The Papers of Julian Heward Bell

This file contains several typescripts and carbon typescripts of poems, many with textual variations and autograph manuscript annotations. Occasionally two or more different poems are given the same title. Many poems are identified by first line only. The poems in this file comprise:

Typescript, 'Whimbrel Passing Over A City: Irregular Ode' [For autograph manuscript variation of part of the poem see 1/1/1.]

3 typescripts, 'Romano-British. Exercise on a conventional theme'

Typescript, 'The Sirens'

Carbon typescript, 'The Drunken Boat', with 2 sheets of manuscript notes by Charles Mauron in French.

Carbon typescript, 'General Considerations on the Situation'

Typescript and carbon typescript, 'A Butterfly Collection'

Typescript and carbon typescript, 'West Winds'

Typescript and 2 carbon typescripts, 'London IV'

Typescript and 2 carbon typescripts, 'Song'

Typescript and 2 carbon typescripts, 'To the revolutionary workers'

Typescript and 2 carbon typescripts, 'There were three devils sat on a tree ...'

Typescript and carbon typescript, 'Stale corpse, mummia sub-palmate ...'

Typescript and carbon typescript, 'My Lesbia, live, but do not love ...'

2 carbon typescripts, 'War, love, lust ...' [For typescript see 'Headstones for Runic inscriptions' 1/8]

2 carbon typescripts, 'The kitten and the falling leaves ...' [For typescript see 'The Leopard' 1/8]

2 carbon typescripts, 'Carelessly fleeting time ...'

2 carbon typescripts, 'Spring Q 1931 - Spring 1934'

2 carbon typescripts, 'The downland tempts th [sic] limbs whose mould ...'

2 carbon typescripts, 'Sing a song of sixpence ...'

2 carbon typescripts, 'Here's an old game, the last time playing ...' [For typescript see 'Romantic' 1/8]

2 carbon typescripts, 'Is this an end ...'

2 carbon typescripts, 'You could not give, you are not given ...' [For typescript see 'Masculine Vanity' 1/8]

2 carbon typescripts, 'Do not love me, if you would ...' [For typescript see 'Warning Notice' 1/8]

Typescript and 2 carbon typescripts, 'Auden's Pulpit' and 'Brave New World'

2 typescripts, 'Prarial'

Typescript, 'An Imitation of Ronsard'

Typescript, 'Aubade', Spring 1930

Typescript and carbon typescript, 'Arms and the Man' [Pages of typescript and carbon typescript combined to create complete poem]

Typescript, 'Sonnet' [First line 'You are not changed to laurel or to stream ...']

Typescript, 'Libelle'

Typescript, 'After Rimbaud'

Typescript, 'Exercises on Conventional Themes: Greek'

Typescript, 'New Year's Card'

Typescript, 'Curve of a desolate, bird haunted line ...'

Typescript, 'Paradis Farouche'

Typescript, 'Saint Valentine'

Typescript, '"Quia Amore Langueo"'

Typescript, 'Spring on the Water Meadows' [For autograph manuscript see 1/5/1]

Carbon typescript, 'The White Knights Reply'

Typescript, 'Night Sounds' [For autograph manuscript see 1/5/1]

Typescript, 'An Elegy on Richard Jefferies and The Decay of the English Countryside'.

Published poems have been placed first in the sequence.

In French and English

'Whimbrel Passing Over A City: Irregular Ode' was published in 'Winter Movement'; 'Romano-British. Exercise on a conventional theme' was published in 'The Cambridge Review', 11 October 1929; 'The Sirens' was published in 'Cambridge Poetry', Hogarth Press, No.8, 1929 and 'The Drunken Boat' was published in 'The Cambridge Review' as 'The Drunken Boat. A Translation of Rimbaud's "Bateau Ivre" By Charles Mauron and Julian Bell', 19 May 1933. 'Aubade' and 'An Imitation of Ronsard' were published in 'New English Poems. A miscellany of contemporary verse never before published' edited by Lascelles Abercrombie, London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, (1931). 'Arms and the Man' was published in 'New Signatures. Poems by several hands' collected by Michael Roberts. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932.