Seeds in the Wind: Juvenilia from W.B. Yeats to Ted Hughes

by NevilleBraybrooke (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  1989

  $5.81

  A collection of writings by famous authors from before they were 18 - including an unpublished Eliot lyric, love letters by the 9-year-old Virginia Woolf, and Confessions of Graham Greene, aged 7. Writers as diverse as Kipling and Beatrix Potter, Evelyn Waugh and Sylvia Plath, are represented. Biographer and novelist Neville Braybrooke has been collecting the pieces for this volume for over 30 years.

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  Paperback
  1991

  $3.25

  George Orwell as an imperialist patriot, Virginia Woolf making fun of feminism and T.S.Eliot as the author of an adventure story set in the South Seas are among the prize items to be found in this collection of 20th-century juvenilia. The age limit has been set at 16. The author has been collecting material for this book for the past 30 years, encouraging friends like Francis King, David Gascoyne and Elizabeth Jennings to search through their old papers. Other items he tracked down in school magazines - such as John Betjeman's attempt to find words to rhyme with summer , which first appeared in the Dragon School magazine in 1918, when he was only 13. The collection should appeal to those interested in 20th-century literature, poetry and writers, as well as collectors of anthologies and miscellanies.