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52497: Edward Thomas: Drafts of Poems

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posted on 2024-04-25, 17:29 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

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. |

File description(s):


Collation of texts by R. George Thomas
Signed 'Edward Eastaway'.
Based closely on a prose version called "Old Man's Beard."
The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after it's first line. The poem is no. 76 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
The manuscript does not have a title and is labeled 'Words' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. This draft is marked 'unamended'.
This manuscript is untitled but labeled 'Words' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems. The draft is marked 'unamended'.
This manuscript is untitled but labeled 'Words' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems
This manuscript is untitled but labeled 'Words' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems.
This draft has been marked 'unrevised'

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Subject

Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)

Creator

Thomas, Edward (1878-1917)

Date

1915 - 1916? | Unknown Unknnown

Date Created

01/01/1915

Temporal Date

31/12/1916

Spatial

Unknown

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper | Card Paper

Format

Typescript | Pen Typescript

Type

Poem | Miscellaneous Poem

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54

Number of Pages

54

Contributor

Alisa Miller | Everett Sharp and Kate Lindsay

Rights

Copyright of The National Library of Wales / The Edward Thomas Literary Estate

Collection ID

MS 23077C | MS 23077C | MS 23077C f.i | MS 23077C f.ii | MS 23077C f.iii | MS 23077C f.iv | MS 23077C f.v | MS 23077C f.vi | MS 23077C f.1 | MS 23077C f.2 | MS 23077C f.3 | MS 23077C f.4 | MS 23077C f.5 | MS 23077C f.6 | MS 23077C f.7 | MS 23077C f.8 | MS 23077C f.9 | MS 23077C f.10 | MS 23077C f.11 | MS 23077C f.12 | MS 23077C f.13 | MS 23077C f.14 | MS 23077C f.15 | MS 23077C f.16 | MS 23077C f.17 | MS 23077C f.18 | MS 23077C f.19 | MS 23077C f.20 | MS 23077C f.21 | MS 23077C f.22 | MS 23077C f.23 | MS 23077C f.24 | MS 23077C f.25 | MS 23077C f.26 | MS 23077C f.27 | MS 23077C f.28 | MS 23077C f.29 | MS 23077C f.30 | MS 23077C f.31 | MS 23077C f.32 | MS 23077C f.33 | MS 23077C f.34 | MS 23077C f.35 | MS 23077C f.36 | MS 23077C f.37 | MS 23077C f.38 | MS 23077C f.39 | MS 23077C f.39 | MS 23077C f.40 | MS 23077C f.41 | MS 23077C f.42 | MS 23077C f.43 | MS 23077C f.44 | MS 23077C

Repository Name

National Library of Wales

Repository Address

Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, SY23 3BU, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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