Edward Thomas: Drafts of Poems

Item

Title

Edward Thomas: Drafts of Poems

Identifier

1701.cpd

Creator

Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)

Abstract

Typescript working copies of twenty-three poems (poems 1-5,7-10,14,26,30, 56,76-7,79,81-5,87-8 in R. George Thomas (ed.) The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas), with collation of texts by R. George Thomas (ff. i-vi). Two copies are included of poem 77 (ff. 34-7), one marked 'unamended', and poem 56 (ff. 38-45), one marked 'unrevised'. Poem 'The Combe' (f. 2) is signed 'Edward Eastaway'. The typescripts were used by Thomas for revision during his final gathering of poems for Poems published in 1917 under the pseudonym 'Edward Eastaway' and nine of the poems (ff. 2,8,13,16-19,26-7, 33-45) are included in the volume. These are the typescripts designated JT by R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems, p. xxvii.
vi, 45 ff. c.270 x 205 mm. Guarded and filed.

Date

1915 - 1916?

Date Created

1915-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1916-12-31

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem

number of pages

54

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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