Accession number
PML 199072.1
Creator
McKay, Claude, 1890-1948.
Published
Place of writing not identified, [between 1917 and 1948].
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Acquisitions Fund, 2023.
Notes
Text reads: "Oh I am sated, sated unto death / With your cold lips, your bed of dull desire; / My spirit yearns for some strange, vital breath / To burn my body like a blaze of fire."
Apparently unpublished.
This manuscript leaf is tipped into the verso of the frontispiece in a signed copy of McKay's Spring in New Hampshire (London: Grant Richards, 1920). See PML 199072.
Apparently unpublished.
This manuscript leaf is tipped into the verso of the frontispiece in a signed copy of McKay's Spring in New Hampshire (London: Grant Richards, 1920). See PML 199072.
Description
1 sheet (1 page) ; 11 x 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in brownish-black ink and signed Claude McKay.
Summary
Autograph manuscript of 4 lines of poetry entitled 'Desire.'
Classification
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