“This poem, written shortly after my seventeenth birthday and published by Geoffrey Grigson in New Verse, was excluded by me from my first book of verse, because of its immaturity.”
Locations in Harold's Library
- The Collected Ewart, 1933-1980 (book)
- page 10
- in "Early Poems (1933-39)"
This work has the following connections with other works:
- The White Devil • Francisco's line from 5.1 "I shall draw strange fowl from this foul nest" is epigraph to Ewart's poem
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