[Patric Dickinson, poet, translator and broadcaster.] Copy of his poetry collection 'The World I See', inscribed to his mistress Sarah Hamilton, and with autograph explanatory annotation throughout.

Patric Dickinson has not received his due. A self-styled ‘poet and impresario of poetry’, Dickinson occupied a central position in the cultural landscape of post-war Britain. As an editor and broadcaster he worked with poets such as Dylan Thomas, Cecil Day Lewis and Roy Campbell, actresses Flora Robson, Peggy Ashcroft and Jill Balcon, and actors Robert Donat, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud. See John Mole’s obituary in the Independent, 31 January 1994. From the papers of Dickinson’s mistress Sarah Emmeline Hamilton. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). The present item is 48pp, 8vo. In dustwrapper printed in green and black designed by Enid Marx. In fair condition, aged and a little discoloured, in worn and aged dustwrapper. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper 'For Sarah with my love Patric'. Twenty-six pages carry pencil annotations by Dickinson, ranging from a few words, to this (about the poem 'In Living Sleep'), 'A dream I had. ie. the Milton bit. This poem was rejected from my previous two books. Why it's in this one I dont know. Rejected I mean, by my publisher. Ive always thought it says things worth saying.'; and this (of 'Grassgards'), 'Written in the library at the Savile Club. In. 1959. & how marvellously I am confounded! Richard & Rachel Heywood have wholly transformed this house & farm the land & have Chloe & Lawrence (3 & 3 mths). R & R. (New College; & St Hilda's)'. The book also contains a pressed leaf, and a cutting of a review of Dickinson's 'One Hour', broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, dated in pencil to 28 November 1962.