Ts. poem, beginning "If I saw the sky in flames", Philip Larkin

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Papers of Philip Arthur LarkinU DPL

Poetry workbooksU DPL/1

Poetry typescriptsU DPL/2

File of poetry bookletsU DPL/2/1

File. 'One o'clock jump...' (cutting from a magazine)U DPL/2/2

Folder containing a photograph of Orangemen parading and three negatives showing Philip Larkin in swimming costume, Kinglsey Amis, and an attic bedroomU DPL/2/2/1

Ts. poem 'Leaving school', Philip Larkin, with a sketch on the reverseU DPL/2/2/2

Typed sheet including the poems 'Mary had a little lamb in Arabic', 'For the mind to betray' (annotated) and 'Still beauty' (annotated), Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/3

Ts. poem, beginning "The earliest machine was simple", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/4

Ts. poem, 'Poem', beginning "Walking on summer grass beneath the trees", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/5

Typed sheet including the poems beginning "Lie with me, though the night returns outside", "When trees are quiet, there will be no more weeping" (annotated) and "The dead are lost, unravelled; but if a voice", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/6

Ts. poem 'Sonnet', beginning "This was your place of birth, this daytime place", Philip Larkin [slight variant of CP265]U DPL/2/2/7

Typed sheet including the ts. poems 'Plymouth' (annotated) and 'Song with a spoken refrain' (annotated)U DPL/2/2/8

Ts. poem, beginning "Happiness is a flame", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/9

Ts. poem, beginning "There is snow in the sky", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/10

Ts. poem, beginning "If I saw the sky in flames", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/11

Ts. poem 'Inscription on a clockface', Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/12

Newspaper cutting of the poem 'Church going', Philip Larkin, taken from 'The Spectator' [CP97]U DPL/2/2/13

Typed sheet headed 'Wellington poems. Second series' and including the poems beginning "All I remember is" (later called 'Nursery tale' [CP289]), and "Small paths lead away", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/14

Typed sheet including the poems 'On poetry', 'Dawn' [CP284] and 'End', Philip Larkin, with a pencil drawing.U DPL/2/2/15

Typed sheet of poems, Philip Larkin including the poems beginning "Where was this silence learned", 27 February 1945, "Coming at last to night's most thankful springs" [CP306], 1 March 1945, and "I have despatched so many words", 26 February 1945U DPL/2/2/16

Ts. poem 'Chant', Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/17

Ts. poem, 'Poem', beginning "I met an idiot at a bend in the lane", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/18

Ts. poem, beginning "I should be glad to be in at the death", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/19

Ts. poem, 'Poem', beginning "Summer extravagance shrink", with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/20

Typed sheet including the poems 'A member of the 1922 class looks to the future' and 'A democrat to others', Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/21

Ts. poem, beginning "When the tide draws out", with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/22

Ts. poem, beginning "Past days of gale", Philip Larkin [CP310]U DPL/2/2/23

Ts. poem 'Slow song', Philip Larkin (slight variant of the poem later called 'To a very slow air' [CP13])U DPL/2/2/24

Ts. poem, beginning "Voices round a light", with annotations, Philip Larkin. With the note 'Alter?'U DPL/2/2/25

Ts. poem, beginning "That girl is lame: look at my rough hands", with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/26

Ts. poem, beginning "When this face was younger", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/27

Ts. poem, beginning "Where was this silence learned", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/28

Ts. poem, beginning "Lie with me, though the night returns outside", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/29

Ts. poem, beginning "There is no clearer speaking", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/30

Ts. poem, beginning "A stick's-point, drawn", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/31

Ts. poem, beginning "When trees are quiet, there will be no more weeping", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/32

Ts. poem 'Beggars', with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/33

Ts. poem, beginning "Days like a handful of grey pearls", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/34

Ts. poem, beginning "Lift through the breaking day", Philip Larkin [CP308]U DPL/2/2/35

Ts. poem, beginning "Sky tumbles, the sea", with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/36

Ts. poem 'A member of the 1922 class reads the 1942 newspapers', with annotations and illustration, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/37

Three typed sheets including the poems beginning "When so many dropped on the harsh morning...", "Now every promise is withdrawn", "Yet I do not want to end", and "The land in sun and shadow", with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/38

Ts. poem 'Sonnet: Penelope, August 1942', Philip Larkin (variant of the poem (untitled) at CP283)U DPL/2/2/39

Ms. worksheets for the poem beginning "It is nearly eleven o'clock: I have heard the news at nine" (2pp.)U DPL/2/2/40

Typed sheet headed (in pencil) 'Poems April 1942' and including the poems beginning "A day has fallen past", "If days were matches I would strike the lot", and "I walk at random through the evening park", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/41

Ts. poem 'Poem', beginning "The camera of the eye", Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/42

Ts. poem 'Prayer of a plum', Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/43

Ts. poem 'A bird sings at the garden's end', Philip Larkin (2pp.)U DPL/2/2/44

Ts. poem, beginning "Sailors brought back strange stories of those lands", with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/45

Ts. poem 'Fable', beginning "After the casual growing-up", with annotations, Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/46

Ts. poem 'Planes passing', Philip LarkinU DPL/2/2/47

Ts. poem 'Mayweather', Philip Larkin (variant of poem at CP261)U DPL/2/2/48

Ts. poem, beginning "Only in books the flat and final happens", with annotations, Philip Larkin (original title 'Sonnet at the junction' crossed out: variant of the poem later called 'Observation' [CP264])U DPL/2/2/49

Ts. draft unfinished fragments of verse (sections iv, v, vi), beginning "Who was called Mr Rag and wrote music...", Philip Larkin (pp. 2 - 3)U DPL/2/2/50

Bound file. 'Unpublished poems, 1948 - 'U DPL/2/3

Photocopy of file DPL/2/3, 'Unpublished poems, 1948 - 'U DPL/2/4

Poetry publicationsU DPL/3

Prose and other manuscriptsU DPL/4

CorrespondenceU DPL/5

InterviewsU DPL/6

SpeechesU DPL/7

All Souls College, OxfordU DPL/8

PhotographsU DPL/9

MiscellaneousU DPL/10

Second DepositU DPL2

Third DepositU DPL3

Fourth DepositU DPL4