Collected Poems Anthony Burgess (best pdf reader for ebooks txt) 📖

85. Moses – Return Into Egypt. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

86. Moses – The Plagues. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

87. Moses – The Passover. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

88. Moses – The Exodus. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

89. Moses – Miracles Of The Desert. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

90. Moses – The Mountain. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

91. Moses – A Restive People. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

92. Moses – The Golden Calf. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

93. Moses – Death And The Law. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

94. Moses – Unrest. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

95. Moses – The Death Of Dathan. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

96. Moses – Balaam. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

97. Moses – Zimri. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

98. Moses – Abominations Before The Lord. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

99. Moses – Jordan. IABF. AB/ARCH/A/MOS/3.

100. ‘And if there be no beauty, if god has passed some by.’ Previously unpublished. St Winefred’s Well [by Gerard Manley Hopkins and Anthony Burgess], broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 23 December 1989. BBC Written Archives Centre, ref. SBS950/89DA6366. Transcribed from the audio recording.

101. ‘Talk is easy. Easiest for one who.’ From St Winefred’s Well.

102. ‘Thank you. Enough, brother Teryth.’ From St Winefred’s Well.

103. ‘I choose no tail or toy! Truth – a light that outdoes this sun.’ From St Winefred’s Well.

104. ‘Say nothing, Priest, father, mother.’ From St Winefred’s Well.

105. The Pet Beast. This text published posthumously in Paul Phillips, A Clockwork Counterpoint, pp. 405-6. Typescript at Angers University Library.

106. Signs (Dogs Of Peace). Previously unpublished. IABF, AB/ARCH/A/POE/18.

107. ‘Augustine and Pelagius.’ A Clockwork Testament, or Enderby’s End. (London: Hart-Davis, MacGibbon,1974), pp. 22–67. Transcribed from IABF, AB/ARCH/A/TCT, IABF. Title added by editor.

108. The Princely Progress. A review of Clive James’s Charles Charming’s Challenges on the Pathway to the Throne (London: Jonathan Cape, 1981). Times Literary Supplement, 12 June 1981, p. 656.

109. ‘Sick of the sycophantic singing, sick.’ ‘Five Revolutionary Sonnets’, Transatlantic Review, 21 (1966), pp. 30–32.

110. ‘Bells broke in the long Sunday, a dressing-gown day.’ ‘Five Revolutionary Sonnets’, Transatlantic Review, 21 (1966), pp. 30–32.

111. ‘A dream, yes, but for everyone the same.’ ‘Five Revolutionary Sonnets’, Transatlantic Review, 21 (1966), pp. 30–32.

112. ‘They lit the sun, and then their day began.’ This sonnet appears, with the first line missing, in Enderby Outside (London: Heinemann, 1968), pp. 88–9. ‘Five Revolutionary Sonnets’, Transatlantic Review, 21 (1966), pp. 30–32.

113. ‘Augustus on a guinea sat up straight.’ ‘Five Revolutionary Sonnets’, Transatlantic Review, 21 (1966), pp. 30–32.

114. To Vladimir Nabokov On His 70th Birthday. IABF, AB/ARCH/A/POE/23.

115. The Sword. The swordstick, and the New York subway setting also appear in A Clockwork Testament, when Enderby defends himself and others against thugs on a train. The Transatlantic Review, No. 23 (Winter 1966-7), pp. 41–43.

116. O Lord, O Ford, God Help Us, Also You. ‘Hinc illae lacrimae’ means ‘hence these tears’; see: Terence. Andria (ed. by George Pelham Shipp). (London: Bristol Classical Press, 1960:2002). Burgess describes organised cannibalism, and it leading to canned food called, amongst other things, ‘Mench’. Here, Burgess partially reuses material from his dystopian novel The Wanting Seed (London: Heinemann, 1962). New York Times, 29 December 1974.

117. A Sonnet for the Emery Collegiate Institute. Previously unpublished. Addressed to: Warner Winter, Esq. and dated St. Bridget’s Day, 1976. Typescript at IABF.

118. ‘Advice to would-be writers? Simple. Don’t.’ Previously unpublished. Dated July 24, 1974, and sent to a Mrs Fischer. Burgess wrote the following note to accompany the sonnet: ‘Dear Mrs Fischer – Many thanks for your kind letter of May 4. The delay in getting it and hence replying (it came a couple of days ago) must be blamed on the Italian postal services, which are now sunk in ultimate chaos. Here is a sonnet.’ Typescript at IABF.

119. ‘I send these lines to you in Agincourt.’ Previously unpublished. Transcribed from an image of a Burgess manuscript posted online in 2007. Graphical analysis of the image showed that on the back of the sonnet is a letter from 16 February 1974 in which Burgess thanks someone for an (unknown) act of kindness. In the fragment, he tantalisingly mentions a birthday, ‘electronic equipment’, and a photograph. From a scanned image of an original MS. Location unknown.

120. ‘End of the world – cosy, something thrilling.’ Previously unpublished. Sent to the editors, Yale News. Typescript at IABF.

121. ‘Late as I am, but blame the mails, not me.’ Previously unpublished. Sent to Mr Selwyn C. Gamble. Typescript at IABF.

122. ‘Forgive the lateness, please, of this reply.’ Previously unpublished. Sent to Mr Alan Fox. Typescript at IABF.

123. ‘Some consider love is great.’ Previously unpublished. From the screenplay for Eternal Life (1991). The character Stauff notes of this: ‘There used to be a poem. I forget who composed it. I remember these lines, however…You have read no history [he tells Golisha]. You have been forbidden books. The epics of the human past are unknown to you.’ Transcribed from MS draft.

124. To Chas. Previously unpublished. Attributed to Burgess. ‘To Chas’. Emailed to IABF on 21 May 2012. The correspondent described the work as ‘a poem that Anthony Burgess wrote for a member of my family [who was] suffering from terminal lymphoma when he shared a room with Mr Burgess in Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York in 1991 or 1992.’ Typescript at IABF.

125. ‘What can I say? I’d better try a sonnet.’ Previously unpublished. Addressed to Mr Peter Brule and dated 31 March 1974. Typescript at IABF.

126. ‘Forgive my writing verse: I get so bored.’ Previously unpublished. Untitled sonnet to Mr S.G. Byam. Typescript at IABF.

127. ‘Dear Chris, the trouble is, as you must know.’ Previously unpublished. Untitled sonnet to Mr Chris Mahon, dated 14 September 1974. Typescript at IABF.

128. Happy Birthday Tae Andrew. Previously unpublished. Anthony Burgess. ‘Happy Birthday tae Andrew’. Hand-written and illustrated booklet of loose paper. Dated August 9 1979. Typescript at IABF.

129. ‘So will the flow of time and fire.’ Previously unpublished. This is deleted in the published novel. Burgess gives no indication as to why this is to be deleted, but there is a confident scrawl and deletion mark next to it. In terms of the context of the story, the second half is more believable as it is less finished:

And something something something can

Take partners for a plonk pavane,

The blinded giant’s