An Athletics Compendium

L 212 - 222 Poetry * Short Stories— Anthologies 212 The best bookfor boys. London: Dean, 1930. 95p; illus BL: 012807.e.78 Includes 'The paper chase' by P. M. Frost. 213 Warne's pleasure book fboorys. London: Frederick Warne, 1930. 188p; illus BL: P.P.6754.ack Includes 'The bigrun' by A.W.Seymour. 214 The great book of school stories for boys / edited by Herbert Strang. London: Oxford University Press, 1932. 146p; illus Includes 'Mappin's mibley' Gunby Hadath (22p). 215 The golden budget boofkor boys. London: Blackie, 1938? 96p; illus BL: P.P.6751.bba 'A fighting finish', by A. W. Seymour, is about a talented, but reluctant, athlete. 216 Good sports!: a bag of sports stor/iescollected by Tony Bradman; illustrated by Jon Riley. London: Doubleday, 1992. 209p; illus ISBN: 0-385-40232-5 BL: YK.1993.a.l2117 Includes 'Fun run' by Robert Leeson and 'Gate crashed' by Brian Morse. Poetry # Single Author Collections Abse, Dannie 217 Tenants ofthe house: poems, 1951-1956. London: Hutchinson, 1957. 79p BL: 11659.cc.59 Includes 'The race'. Ahlherg, Allan 218 Please Mrs Butler/ verses by Allan Ahlberg; pictures by Fritz Wegner. Harmondsworth: Kestrel, 1983. 93p; illus ISBN: 0-7226-5792-7 BL: X.990/23229 Includes'lf I wasn't me'and 'The runners'. For child en. Anonymous 219 The ancientEnglish romance oHf avelok the Dane, accompanied by thFerench text, with an introduction, notes and a glossary,by F. Madden. London: Roxburghe Club, 1828. BL;G.88.(1) A poem thought to be composed in the thirteenth century (the manuscript is held in the Bodleian) containing probably the earliest description in Engl sh literature aonf athletics conte(slitnes 1004-1056). The hero is a champion pauttting thsetone and wins a contest Laintcoln by twelve feet. It is of interethstat Peter deLangtoft's chronicletr,anslated by Robert Mannyng of Brunne (ISSS) states: 'men sals in Lyncoln Castelle ligges yit a stone that Havelok cast'. Etymological dictionaries quote 'Havelok' as containing the earliersetcorded instance otfhe verb 'to putt'. 220 Layamon's Brut, or. Chronicle of Britain; a poetical semi- Saxon paraphrase of thBerut of Wace. Now first published ... by Sir F. Madden. London: Society of Antiquaries, 1847. 3 vols. BL: Ac.5665/4 Modern rendering of an early English (c1200) text which makes reference (ii, 344ftfo) a sports meeting with running, leaping andthrowing. Auden, WH. . 221 Collected poems of W.HA.uden / editedby Edward Mendelson. London: Faber, 1976. 696p; index ISBN: 0-571-10833-4 BL: 2039 .g Includes 'Runner'. Bacchylides 222 Complete poems; translated bRyobert Fagles; with a foreword by MauriceBowra; introduction and notbeys Adam M. Parry. London: Yale University Press, 1998. 123p; illus; pbk Originallypublished:New Haven:Yale UniversityPress, 1961; translatedfromtheGreek; withnewtranslator'snote ISBN: 0-300-07552-9 BL: YC.1998.a.4330 [ 172 ]