Notebook containing poems dating mostly from 1939-1949, with some earlier inclusions and many alterations. The volume is only half used. Contents: Title page 'Poems' with watercolour decoration: /1r. Poems: - 'Microcosmos', draft and fair copy: /2r. - 'Death in June', with revisions: /2v. - 'The Test', previously named 'The Test and Solution'; with revisions: /2v. - 'A Bavarian Afternoon', previously named 'A German Afternoon'; with revisions: /3r. - 'A Moment of Actuality', previously named 'Heightened Consciousness'; with revisions (and excised): /4r. - 'Farewell, my Fancy': /4r. - 'The Pilgrim', previously named 'Paradise through Purgatory'; with revisions (and excised): /5r. - 'Imagination (Shelley's World)', with revisions (and excised): /5v. - 'Intimations', with revisions: /5v. - 'Sceptical Faith', previously named 'Sceptical Piety'; with revisions (and excised): /6r. - 'A View of Old Exeter', with revisions: /7r. - 'A Post-Ausonian Poet', with revisions: /7v. - 'August 4th, 1939', with revisions (and excised): /8r. - 'A Foreseeing', with revisions: /8v. - 'The Word Faithful', with revisions: /9r. - 'Ancestral Admonition' (excised): 9r. - 'Resurrection', fair copy: /9v. - 'Gloria Mundi', with revisions: /10r. - 'Spectators', with revisions: /10r. - 'Anno Domini', with revisions: /11r. - 'Old Music', previously named 'Mind Music' and 'The Quiet Room'; with revisions: /12r. - 'Youth and Maturity' (excised): /13r. - 'While Reading a Ghost Story', with revisions: /14r. - 'A Bedtime Story', with revisions: /14v. - 'To a Child', previously named 'Fifty years between us', with revisions: /15r. - 'A Garden Statue', with revisions; /16r. - 'A Local Train of Thought', with revision: /17r. - 'Nirvana' (excised): /17r. - 'A Moment's Memoirs' (excised): /18r. - 'Man and Dog', with revision: /19r. - 'Elegy on a Dandy Dinmont', with revisions: /19r. - 'A Middle-life in Armageddon', with revisions (and excised): /20r. - 'The Beginning': /20v. - 'The Hardened Heart', with revision: /21r. - 'Breezy June' (excised): /22r. - 'The Contrast', with revision: /23r. - 'A War-time Remonstrance', previously named 'A Gentle Remonstrance'; with revisions: /24r-24v. - 'Fourth Winter', with revisions: /25r. - 'Go, words, on winds of war', with revisions: /25v. - 'Out of it', with excisions: /27r. - 'On Scratchbury Camp', previously named 'On Scratchbury Hill in Wartime' and 'Sweet of the year in Wartime': /28r. -'A Reading of Youth', previously named 'An Uninstructed Reader', with revisions: /29r. - 'A 1940 Memory', with revisions: /30r. - 'In Early March', previously named 'Mid-afternoon in Early March'; with revisions: /30v. - 'Two Askings', with revisions: /31v-32r. - 'A Rejection of Reality', with revisions: /33r. - 'First and last Delight', with revisions (and excised): /34r. - 'Digging toward Peace', two drafts; /34v-35r. - 'Cleaning the Candelabrum', previously named 'While Cleaning my Candelabrum'; with revisions: /36r. - 'Innovations', with revisions: /36v. - 'Getting queer in wartime', with revisions: /37r. - 'Voices on the Lawn', previously named 'The Child on the Lawn'; with revisions: /37v-38r. - 'The Solution', with revisions (and excised): /39r. - 'Gone', with revisions: /39r. - 'A Star', with revisions (and excised): /39r. - 'A Personal Path', with revisions: /40r. - 'The Armageddon Atmosphere', previously named 'The 1940 Atmosphere' and 'Air Activity in 1940'; with revisions: /40r. - 'A Private Peace': /41r. - 'The Stable Yard'; /41r. - 'Valediction to Youth', previously named 'Valediction to Dead Youth'; with revisions and excisions: /42r. - 'An Escapist', with revisions: /42v. - 'A Country Character', previously named 'Fifth Summer': /43r. - 'A Traditionalist Speaking', previously named 'Serenity in Art'; with revisions: /44r. - 'Easter: 1945': /44r. - 'To Some who say Production won the War': /45r. - 'Belsen', previously named 'The Problem of Belsen': /45r. - 'An Absentee': /45v. - 'A Regret', with revision: /45v. - 'Litany of the Lost': /46r. - 'Praise Persistent', with revision: /46v. - 'Receivers', with revisions: /46v. - 'Christmas, 1945', previously named 'Predicament' and 'This thing which is come to pass': /47r. - 'III', begins 'could we but be absolved of what the years have wrought': /47v. - 'Hypnogogic Inventions', previously named 'Visual Inventions'; with revisions: /47v. - 'Loads of Living', previously named 'Epilogue'; with revisions: /48r. - 'The Unlived Years': /48r. - 'The Child Denied': /48v. - 'Sanctuary', with revisions: /49r. - 'God Unresponding' (excised): /49r. - 'The Lost Things', with revisions: /49v. - 'Solitudes at Sixty', with revision: /49v. - 'A Prayer to Time', with revisions: /50r. - 'Advice to Insomnia', with revisions: /50r. - 'Confederacy with Oblivion', with revisions: /50v. - 'Ultimate Values': /50v. - 'In Time of Decivilisation', previously named 'Philosophy to Fail'; with revisions: /51r. - 'A Glimpse of Fitz', with revisions: /51v. - 'A Fallodon Memory', with revisions: /52r. - 'On Hearing Some Sonatas'', with revisions: /52v. - 'Old-fashioned Weather', with revisions: /53r. - 'Creature to Creator' (excised): /53v. - 'Acceptance', previously named 'The Enigma'; with revisions: /53v. NB. Enclosures are housed separately. Foliation is the archivist's.