Dies Irae

This is the title of a collection of 16 poems that - according to a note written by EM in Poems of Thirty Years, Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982, p. V (see also: Collected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1990, p. 15.) - "was to have been published by Lotus Press in their Acadine Poets series, but when the series foundered through lack of finance, never appeared; it was intended as a complementary volume to The Vision of Cathkin Braes - rather like the tragic and comic masks of drama."

So although Dies Irae and Other Poems and Translations had been written in 1952 they appeared for the very first time in:

Poems of Thirty Years, Manchester: Carcanet New Press, 1982, p. 3-24.

Contents:

Dies Irae
Stanzas of the Jeopardy
'What waves have beaten…'
A Warning of Waters at Evening
The Sleights of Darkness
The Sleights of Time
Sleight-of-Morals
Harrowing Heaven, 1924
From the Anglo-Saxon:
The Ruin
The Seafarer
The Wanderer
Riddles: Swallows; Swan; Bookworm; Storm
From the Middle English:
The Grave

Reprints:

Collected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1990, p. 21-40.

One of the poems from Dies Irae, Stanzas of the Jeopardy, was reprinted in:

Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1985, p. 9f.

New Selected Poems, Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2000, p. 9f.

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