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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Contents Bibliography Editor’s Preface by Roger Scott Introductory Notes by David Gascoyne Acknowledgements Poems Written at School (1929)

Storm UNCOLL October Night UNCOLL

From Roman Balcony (1932)

Roman Balcony Fading Avenues Vista Roman Ghosts Summer’s Echo Rain Clouds Prison Transformation Scene The Bridge Psychological Fragment Exhaustion Seaside Tragedy The New Isaiah

Other Early Poems (1932–1935)

By the Sea: Traditional Form & Modernist Forms UNCOLL Seaside Souvenir On the Terrace Slate Susan: A Carving by Eric Gill UNCOLL From ‘Ten Proses’

2. ‘In New York and Other Cities’ 3. ‘Shafts of Pale Light Are Directed’ 8. ‘They Were Hardly to Be Expected Here’ 10. ‘The World of De Chirico’

From ‘Automatic Album Leaves’

1. ‘The Room is Not Very Large’

In Perpetuum Mobile Hommage à Mallarmé UNCOLL Oleograph UNCOLL Night-Piece UNCOLL End of Peace UNCOLL Perpetual Winter Never Known UNCOLL ‘Not Having Knife-Edge to My Ermine Cape’ Landscape Speculation Sonnet: ‘Progressing Forward …’ UNCOLL ‘They Spoke of a New City’ UNCOLL ‘The Roots of Evil’ UNCOLL Germinal Gnu Opaque Marrow Baptism Future Reference

Man’s Life is this Meat (1936)

The Chariot ‘The Cold Renunciatory Beauty’ ‘Light of the Sun over the Arctic Regions’ Morning Dissertation The Unattained Reintegration No Solution Direct Response The Last Head Purified Disgust Charity Week Reflected Vehemence The End is near the Beginning Lost Wisdom Unspoken Yves Tanguy ‘The Truth is Blind’ The Cage Educative Process Antennae Lozanne Salvador Dalí The Diabolical Principle The Rites of Hysteria And the Seventh Dream is the Dream of Isis

Surrealist and Other Poems (1936–1938)

A Sudden Squall Competition UNCOLL ‘The Entrance to That Valley Stands Alone’ UNCOLL Phenomena The Light of the Lion’s Mane The Great Day The Very Image The Cubical Domes The Symptomatic World The Supposed Being Eau Sifflé (for Georges Hugnet) UNCOLL Goût Du Jour UNCOLL Cafard UNCOLL Récupération UNCOLL Fool’s Paradise UNCOLL Symptomatic World UNCOLL Elegiac Stanzas I.M. Alban Berg UNCOLL ‘Chorus’ to ‘Procession to the Private Sector’ UNCOLL The Moon over London UNCOLL An Unfinished, Post-auden Pre-war Proem (for J.S.) Three Verbal Objects ‘Transparency of the Vegetable World …’ UNCOLL Phantasmagoria

From Holderlin’s Madness (1938)

Figure in a Landscape Orpheus in the Underworld Tenebrae Epilogue

Poems 1937–42 (1943)

Miserere

Tenebrae Pieta De Profundis Kyrie Lachrymae Ex Nihilo Sanctus Ecce Homo

Metaphysical Poems:

Concert of Angels Elsewhere World Without End Inferno Lowland Mountains Winter Garden The Wall The Fortress Dichtersleben I.M. Benjamin Fondane Mozart: Sursum Corda Cavatina Artist Insurrection Legendary Fragment Eve Venus Androgyne Post-Mortem UNCOLL Amor Fati Signs The Hero The Fault The Descent The Open Tomb The Plummet Heart The Three Stars Epode

Personal Poems:

Sonnet: From Morn to Mourning The Fabulous Glass Camera Obscura Apologia The Writer’s Hand The Sacred Hearth To a Contemporary An Elegy From a Diary Odeur De Pensée Fête Chambre D’hôtel Jardin Du Palais Royal Noctambules Sonnet: The Uncertain Battle Lines The Anchorite UNCOLL

Time and Place:

Snow in Europe Zero An Autumn Park The Conspirators. Prelude to an Unfinished Narrative Farewell Chorus Spring Mcmxl A Wartime Dawn Walking at Whitsun Oxford: A Spring Day The Gravel-Pit Field Requiem Strophes Elégiaques à La Mémoire D’alban Berg

A Vagrant and Other Poems (1950)

A Vagrant Innocence and Experience Photograph Reported Missing A Tough Generation The Other Larry Eros Absconditus The Goose-Girl Beware Beelzebub Rondel for the Fourth Decade September Sun 1947, Updated 1983 The Post-War Night Demos in Oxford Street Evening Again Three Venetian Nocturnes

1. Barcarolle 2. Lido Gala Fireworks 3. On the Grand Canal

Birth of a Prince Rex Mundi Fragments Towards a Religio Poetae The Second Coming A Little Zodiak for Kathleen Raine After Twenty Springs

Light Verse

An Unsagacious Animal Le Déjeuner Sur L’herbe: A Pastoral The Decay of Decency With a Cornet of Winkles Three Cabaret Songs

Encounter with Silence: Poems, 1950 (1998)

Give up Dead Words Stele Terminal Fragment From an Unfinished / Unpublished Poem Untitled: ‘Mist and Damp …’ Saturnalia The Bomb-Site Anchorite (Fragment)

Make-Weight Verse

A Post-card From Venice to T.S.E Who Are the Orthosexual? L’homme Assez Moyen (Pas Très Sensual)

Other Poems 1950–1956

Qu’est-ce que la Décadence? UNCOLL Yes, You UNCOLL Yes, Thank You. Now I Can Start the Day UNCOLL Remembering the Dead Haiku: Urban Autumn after the War UNCOLL

‘My Own Sophistry’ UNCOLL Ambiguous Haiku UNCOLL Cartesian Haiku UNCOLL

Metropolis by Night UNCOLL Night-Watchers’ruminations UNCOLL Night Thoughts UNCOLL Sentimental Colloquy Elegiac Improvisation on the Death of Paul Eluard

Night Thoughts (1956)

The Nightwatchers Megalometropolitan Carnival Encounter with Silence

Later Poems 1956–1995

The Grass in the Waste Places Half-an-Hour On Rereading Jacob Boehme’s ‘Aurora’ Three Verbal Sonatinas Speechlessness Whales and Dolphins Prelude to a New Fin-de-Siècle Variations on a Phrase Rare Occasional Poem Dodecatribute to Miron Grindea at 75 Arbres, Bêtes, Courants d’Eau: Improvisation (for Salah Stétié), UNCOLL Haiku for [salah] Stétié, Hague Haiku UNCOLL Thalassa: The Unspeakable Sea Entrance to a Lane A Further Frontier A Sarum Sestina November in Devon Three Remanences Ivy UNCOLL

Appendix A: Unpublished Poems, Drafts and Fair Copies

Sonnet to Alida Monro Hinterland The Very Image Asylum The Perpetual Explosion ‘The Hills, and in the Light, Daily’ Compline for the Occident: A Cantata for Choir and Solo Voice Two Untitled Fragments Come Dungeon Dark (Part III) Dark’s Fidelity Epilogue to an Episode Dead End Souvenirs De Paris: A La Fenêtre Epilogue 1940–41 ‘Dear Thomas Eliot’ ‘The Porch before These Poems is the Entrance into Night’ ‘The Hand That in the Darkness’ ‘The Son of Man is in Revolt’ ‘When I Am Able to Think at Night’ Haiku: ‘Rain Globules on Glass’ ‘And Tell Me, How is Christ Preached Now?’ A Summer Evening at Caesar’s Tower

Appendix B: Drafts, Poems in Facsimile, Typescripts

Elegiac Stanzas I.M. Alban Berg, Typescript Ex Nihilo, Handwritten Mozart: Sursum Corda, Typescript The Plummet Heart, Handwritten Apologia, Typescript Epilogue to an Episode, Typescript 1 & 2 Dead End, Typescript An Elegy, Last Page From a Diary, Pages 1 & 2 Chambre d’hôtel Noctambules, Page 1 Epilogue 1940-41 Sonnet: The Battle An Autumn Park, Typescript The Gravel-pit Field Poems Published 1941, Notes Handwritten Requiem, A1 & Typescript Page 1 A Vagrant, Page 1 Rondel for the Fourth Decade, Typescript Barcarolle Stele Terminal Elegiac Improvisation in Honour of Paul Eluard, Page 1 Entrance to a Lane

Appendix C: Notes to the Poems

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