Tennant, Stephen James Napier [21 April 1906 – 28 February 1987]

Wilsford Manor, nd, manuscript in black or blue ink, on both sides of a sheet of notepaper

255 x 200 mm

“The arrow’’

What is the arrows burden ? What is the arrow’s song ?...”

thirty lines, a marginal note records the “ This poem should have a long sweeping rushing sound in it, like swans flying.

“Make Autumn’’

your Talisman your Holy Grail - your pledge,
Autumn the honey-sweetened doom,...”

twenty-six lines

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