Notebook Containing Drafts of 27 Poems, 1916

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Title

Notebook Containing Drafts of 27 Poems, 1916 See all items with this value

Identifier

1139.cpd

Creator

Thomas, Edward (1878-1917) See all items with this value

Abstract

A notebook signed on f. ii Edward Thomas/Wick Green/Petersfield/26 xii 11'. Contents list on f. iv: `(1) Evening Chapel (2) Sigmund (3) The Pilgrim (4) Dialogue (Jehovah &c)' Original ff. 1-11 torn out. On f. 1 is the end of the essay 'The Pilgrim'; on ff. 1v-7 a dialogue between P and T and Jehovah whom they visit. On ff. 7v-41 are drafts, mostly written on rectos, of 27 poems (occurring between nos 103 and 131 in The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas dated between 4 March and 5 July 1916, mostly written in ink, some in pencil, with revision in both ink and pencil. On ff. 29v-30v are trigonometrical sketches. Blank from f. 41v. This is the manuscript designated M2 by R. George Thomas The Collected Poems, p. xxiii.ii, 125ff." f. 1 numbered '12' by Thomas, ff. 2-7 numbered 1-6 by him in second use of the book, 157 x 100mm. Blue cloth tooled with a gold fillet.

Date

1916

Date Created

1916-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1916-12-31

Spatial Coverage

England See all items with this value

Source

Notebook

Medium

Cloth and Paper

Type

Poem

number of pages

73

Contributor

Everett Sharp and Kate Lindsay

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

Subject

Casualties of War
Somme
Trench

Item sets

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The Edward Thomas Collection

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