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ADCOCK, FLEUR (b. 1934)

10 April 2013, 13:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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ADCOCK, FLEUR (b. 1934)

AUTOGRAPH WORKING PAPERS OF HER POEM 'ECLIPSE', c. 45 lines in three drafts and a final version in three twelve-line stanzas, one with personal memoranda on the verso, with revisions, deletions and corrections preserving reconsidered readings, 4 pages, folio and quarto, dated 22 and 13 February 1980

Footnotes

'Today the Dog of Heaven swallowed the sun.
Birds twanged for the dusk and fell silent,
one puzzled flock after another.
African egrets, parakeets; Chinese crows...'

No manuscripts by Fleur Adcock have been sold at auction. Publication of this poem has not been traced: not in Selected Poems, 1991.

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