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2 pages (verso and recto), folio, ruled paper with St Winifred watermark, unsigned. "Aunts and Nieces" comprises 52 lines of manuscript verse to both sides, the text differing in minor ways from the published version: there is one correction to line 34 ["need not" changed to "will not"], and Housman's dividing the sections of the poem with asterisks is unique to this manuscript. The poem relates how a niece scorns her aunt's advice to "avoid, at the approach of dark / Eliza, the umbrageous park" lest "forth the cockatrice will frisk, / and out will bounce the basilisk, / and the astoundingly absurd / yet dangerous cockyoly-bird / will knock you, with its baneful beak, / into the middle of next week". Eliza goes to the park, while her aunt meets the prospect of her niece's doom with chilling sang-froid, and the aunt's prophesy, exactly and literally, comes to pass: "Then, from behind, a vicious peck / descended on Eliza's neck. / Eliza into the azure distance / Followed the line of least resistance. /…
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Aunts and Nieces, or Time and Space." Holograph manuscript poem of Housman's long and grimly humorous poem
by Housman, A. E.
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Autograph manuscript signed of "Canción del Ãngel sin Suerte
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Fair copy of this 12-line poem. 15 cm x 11 cm, blue ink, on the reverse of an invitation to the publication of Alberti's "Degli Angeli," Rome, 1966, inscribed on both sides.
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Kingcups," Signed fair copy typescript
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One page, 8-1/2 in. x 11 in., on good quality paper. Folded twice.
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