BIB_ID
372659
Accession number
MA 5141.9
Creator
Blunden, Edmund, 1896-1974.
Display Date
[1930-1940].
Credit line
Bequest of Kenneth A. Lohf, 2001.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 17.6 cm
Notes
The dealer's description suggests it may be a fair copy.
The manuscript is undated but the poem was published in 1940 in "Poems 1930-1940."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.
Written on the verso of stationery engraved "Merton College, / Tele. 2259. Oxford."
The manuscript is undated but the poem was published in 1940 in "Poems 1930-1940."
This item is part of a collection of autograph letters and manuscripts of War Poetry related to World War I; see collection record (MA 5141) for more information.
Written on the verso of stationery engraved "Merton College, / Tele. 2259. Oxford."
Provenance
Kenneth A. Lohf.
Summary
Being a poem of 36 lines which begins "But for a Basilisk who somewhere cowers / Camouflaged under artful shade / Our siege would prosper; we have guns enough, / Valour enough, and seldom sleep.".
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