Contents include: i) Holograph poems, in draft, in pencil, on back of dust jacket of The Complete Bible, with Apocrypha (Smith & Goodspeed). Poems are: "An Old Poet Complains" (3 drafts); "On a Certain Canadian Author"; "Riposte"; "Bargain"; "On...
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006; Love poetry, Canadian -- 20th century; Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Includes corresondence, copies of poems, financial summaries for a special edition of Love Poems (copy of book available at the University of Saskatchewan's Layton Collection). Includes some original plates for the printing and hand corrected notes...
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006; Canadian poetry -- 20th century; Poets, Canadian -- 20th century
Several drafts of poems, often showing evolution of the creation with several copies and reworkings of individual poems. Also includes a "foreward." Many early poems start hand-written and then become typescripts and any use both sizes of the...
Short story published in shortened reviews form with title Osmeck in Canadian Forum February, 1961 and in his The Swinging Flesh, 1961. Manuscript draft of 28 pages, typescript draft of 23 pages.
Several iterations of poems, corrected typescript and holograph, of poems from Rivers Among Rocks. One page of an article, with lines underscored, in connexion with a poem. One poem written on Time subscription card. Some newspaper articles and...
Typescript and holograph drafts of poems from Flight Into Darkness. Some newspaper articles and pictures concerning some of the material of the poems. Lines included on stationary with A.M. Klein's and Leo Kennedy's names a top.
Typescript and holograph drafts of poems from Rocky Mountain Poems. A map of “Rocky Mountains 1959.” Other poems: "The Poem that Took the Place of a Mountain" by Wallace Stevens