Manuscripts of two song cycles, 'A seaside fantasy' and 'A commonplace fantasy' by William Ernest Henley, containing eleven and twenty-one poems respectively., 1875.
Item
Identifier: MS.4804
Dates
- Creation: 1875.
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Extent
32 Leaves ; Folio.
Arrangement
32 folios.
Bibliography
Six of the poems, entitled 'Beside an idle summer sea', 'Mixing a dream by the way', 'To me in my fifth floor chamber', 'Bring her again, thou western wind', 'She sauntered by the swinging seas', and 'There is a wheel within my head', were published, with considerable alterations, in ‘A book of verses’ (London, 1888). Another, originally entitled 'The west ablaze with insupportable gold', was published as 'The west a glory of green and red and gold' in ‘Hawthorn and Lavender’ (London, 1899). The remaining twenty-five were printed in ‘Poetry Review’, volume xl (1949), pages 188-199.
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Archives and Manuscript Division
National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1EJ
0131 623 3700
manuscripts@nls.uk