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Poems, Letters and Memories of Philip Sidney Nairn
E. R. Eddison
A poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Nairnby the author who went on to create The Worm Ouroborosand the groundbreaking Zimiamvia fantasy trilogy.Eric Rucker Eddison’s first book, originally published privately in hardback during the First World War, is a poignant memoir and tribute to the Oxford poet Philip Sidney Fletcher Nairn, whose work was so inspired by his Scottish ancestry, life in the Lake District, and his subsequent travels across Asia.This first official paperback edition includes a poignant and evocative biography, a dozen photographs, and more than 50 of Nairn’s poems, and marks the centenary of his untimely death in Kuala Lumpur in May 1914, aged just 30 years old.
POEMS, LETTERS, AND MEMORIES OF PHILIP SIDNEY NAIRN
ARRANGED BY
E. R. EDDISON
Late of Trinity College, Oxford
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION
LONDON, 1916
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Version: 2014-12-16
P. S. F. NAIRN IN 1907.
[From, a photograph by Martin Jacolette.]
CONTENTS
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Title Page (#ud709fd43-a713-501b-935f-e3c30ddb27d3)
Copyright
List of Illustrations
Preface
I. Introduction
II. Family, Birth, and School Life
III. Oxford and Stettin
IV. Kelantan and the Federated Malay States
V. Life and Literature
POEMS
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS:
Exile
To J. C.
Desiderium
To E. R. E. (on receiving a certain letter)
To Miss M. H.
In the Buchheide
The Dawn of Love
Retrospect
A Fallen Socrates
Reverie
Rejected Verse
Blore’s
To Smudge – my Dog
To my German Class
To Mrs Honey
For Jess
For Miss E. S.
To Phoebus Apollo
For Barbara
For Miss E. Brown
For Miss M. Brown
Advance, Australia!
‘Altogether Piffle’
Why Not?
At Parting
To the Unknown Goddess
To J. M. C.
Off Malacca
Sundown in the Rains
To E. R. E. (on news of his engagement)
Fragment
Trois Ans Après
Hélas
F. M. S. DITTIES:
To my Nearest Neighbour
The Point of View
Mischievous
The Volunteer Dance
‘He slumbered in Carcosa’s stead’
Metamorphosis
Upon the Troublesome Times
The Seats of the Mighty
Day-dreams or Nightmare?
Furious Driving
Still the Everlasting ‘Dreadnought’
Some Quatrains from the Selangor Golf Club
TRANSLATIONS:
Near to my Love
Night
Late Summer
The Asra
Anacreon’s Grave
To my Absent Love
Ultimus Cursus Vitae
Appendix I
Appendix II
Footnotes
Also by E. R. Eddison
About the Publisher
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (#ub59c4ee2-2843-54ee-883f-c4b8239eb63e)
1 (#litres_trial_promo). P. S. F. Nairn in 1907
2 (#litres_trial_promo). Five Years Old
3 (#litres_trial_promo). At the Foot of Wastwater, April 1906
4 (#litres_trial_promo). At Oxford, on the Cherwell
