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- 1940s ? (Creation)
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Notebooks with black hard cover and marbled endpapers; 94 ff. (plus two endpapers); one loose bifolium.
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Quotation from N[orman] Douglas's "Late Harvest", with verse, 'Brief and gross is the pleasure of love's deed'. Incomplete piece on nature, pleasure, and poetry. Section from Trevelyan's "Thamyris" [page reference added after publication?], with discussion of the work of Lascelles Abercrombie and Robert Bridges. Notebook used from other end in: poem, "To Gordon Bottomley" (first line, 'All best things fade, dear Gordon, into memory and regret...'). Translation of Catullus LXI; note on translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles; translation of Mimnermus 'to his own soul', Pindar fragment 106, Tiberianus, 'Furius and Aurelius...' [Catullus XI], Pindar Pythian 4 line 67ff.
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- Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938), poet and literary critic (Subject)
- Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930), Poet Laureate (Subject)
- Bottomley, Gordon (1874-1948) poet and dramatist (Subject)
- Valerius Catullus, Gaius (c. 84–c. 54 BC), Roman poet (Subject)
- Aeschylus (c 525 BC- c 456 BC) tragedian (Subject)
- Sophocles (c 496-c 406 BC) dramatist (Subject)
- Mimnermus (fl 630 BC – 600 BC) poet (Subject)
- Pindar (c 522 BC - c 433 BC) poet (Subject)
- Homer (fl 750 BC-700 BC) poet (Subject)