Notebook, Late 1980s-1999

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Box 59 (MS Acc13.092)

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Content Summary:

Pt 2 of Smooth black Daler 3405 notebook [215 x 155]. "Burns's Poems - Words For Glossary" [for the Aurum Press edition edited by PP] "Coleridge For Aurum" [notes for the Aurum Press edition edited by PP]; draft of PP biographical note for Aurum editions; four pages of limericks involving composers"; musical programme notes; "Possible Books For The British Council" "Winds: Further Thoughts On Penny's Listings" "Possible Direction Of Programme" (extensive notes on radio broadcast with a wind theme in music "Wind: A Feature")"Shapechanger Extraordinary Untamed Tamer" "A Symphony Of Wind Sounds" [further extensive notes for this programme] "Wind On The Couch Or Voices In The Wind Tunnel" "Winds As Numinous Presences" "Comicality of Wind" "Postcards - A Handful Of Postcards (short poems in draft with card themes] "Last Words" "Poems For Victorian Opera Season" "Modus Operandi" "Four Operatic Clerihews" "Serse" "Don Giovanni" "Aida" "Inspired Translations" "You Beaut, The King, or A Long Night At The Acmeida" "Index on Censorship: Spender Memorial Issue" (notes for theme and contributions; notes on Min Lu, Goran, Simic, Mandelstam and others) "Turkish Poems" "Arab Creation Myth" (notes) "Possible Titles" (a list "What has become Of Us") "Shadon Worlds" "Osip Mandelstam (notes) "Mutant Proverbs Revisited" "Seven Out Of Eight: Scenes From The Life Of St Francis of Assisi by Sassetta" (PP's English rendering of the libretto) "Mutant Proverbs Revisited (2)" "Notions For Lineua Franca" "Memorability" "Aphorisms, Maxims, epigrams, Proverbs" "The 'Liturgical' Power Of Jargon" "Style Versus Democratic Ease of Understanding" (thoughts on books and music) "Leopardi - The Calm Following The Storm" (PP's English versions in evolving drafts) "Opera In Action: The Poet | Philosopher | Cynic" [notes for music broadcast] "My Other Aria" [musical notes]

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