1950      

Stratton: a play  162pp., Faber, 1950

Dedication to Rose Marie [Duncan], Dated ‘R.D. / 1948’ (162). RD’s desk copy, in the Archive, shows pencil deletions and alterations, particularly towards the end of the play. 

- The Mongrel and other poems  95pp., Faber, 1950

Dedication to Bianca Patricia [RD’s sister]: Contents: Twenty poems; extracts from the play The Eagle Has Two Heads (see 1947); and ‘Mea Culpa: an oratorio’, described as ‘A Libretto for Benjamin Britten’ (76). The libretto was not set.  ‘The site: choose a dry site’ was reprinted in Poems of the Mid-Century, ed John Holloway (Harrap, 1957), 37-38.

 

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