Notebook Containing Drafts of 27 Poems, 1916
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Title
Notebook Containing Drafts of 27 Poems, 1916
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Identifier
1139.cpd
Creator
Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)
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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
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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
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