Edward Thomas: Drafts of Poems
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Title
Edward Thomas: Drafts of Poems
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Identifier
1701.cpd
Creator
Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)
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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.
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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Title | Alternate label | Class |
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Beauty | Text | |
The Combe | Text | |
The Brook | Text | |
Lob | ||
Words | ||
Cock-Crow | ||
I built myself a house of glass | Text | |
Old Man | ||
March | ||
Interval | ||
Up in the Wind | ||
The Signpost | ||
November | Text | |
The Mountain Chapel | Text | |
Birds' Nests | Text | |
After Rain | Text | |
The Mill-Water | Text | |
For These | Text | |
Swedes | Text | |
Aspens | Text | |
Under the wood | Text | |
Two Houses | Text | |
A dream | Text |