Notebook containing drafts and amended copies of published and unpublished verse and prose, with sketches and other notes

Title

Notebook containing drafts and amended copies of published and unpublished verse and prose, with sketches and other notes

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. poet. e. 186

Summary

See Sherwood, pp. 118, 123. The contents include:

(fols. 1v-5r) part of an early draft of the poem 'on Juan declaims' ('Don Juan from the Shadows') first published in the English Review, no. 34, Sep 1911; see Sherwood, pp. 117-118, 128

(fols. 6-7r) a copy of an unpublished poem 'We are young British Liberals…', see Sherwood, p. 123

(fols. 7v-19v) lists of poems to be submitted to magazines for publication

(fols. 8-9r) notes for Act I of Don Juan

(fols. 11-16r) a fair copy of an essay 'They who write great books'

(fols. 16v-19r) a draft and fair copy of the poem 'A sacred incident', first published in the Nation, 24 Dec 1910

(fols. 28-29r) an amended copy of a poem 'In Phaeacia'

(fols. 30v-35r) drafts and amended copies of verses from 'Gates of Damascus' in its early form

(fol. 35v) a note, 'Plot of Novel', referring to The King of Alsander

(fols. 69v-70r) an amended copy of the poem 'Areiya'.

Fols. 1v-5r, 16v-19r, 28-29r, 30v-35r, 69v-70r were first collected in The Golden Journey to Samarkand.

Fols. 39-68 are blank.

Date

[1910-1911]

Language

English

Physical extent

71 Leaves