Verse, mostly rough drafts
MS. 12282/3
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Verse, mostly rough drafts
Shelfmark
MS. 12282/3
Summary
Comprises:
OEF 226-7 'Lines to a Beauty seen in Limehouse' (cont.), [Jul-Aug 1917] (CPF 87)
OEF 228-30 'Has your soul sipped', [Jul-Aug 1917] (CPF 88)
OEF 231-43 'The Swift', [mid-1912] (CPF 89). Includes several drafts (231-234; 235-237; 238-243).
OEF 244 'Dirt', [Aug 1917] (CPF 90). An early version of 245.
OEF 245 'Inspection', [Sep 1917] (CPF 90)
OEF 246 'Music', [Aug-Nov 1917] (CPF 95)
OEF 247 'Anthem to Dead Youth', [Sep-Oct 1917] (CPF 96)
OEF 248 'Anthem for Dead Youth', [Sep-Oct 1917] (CPF 96). A further draft of the first stanza of 247, with altered title. See also 507.
OEF 249 'Six O'Clock in Princes Street', [Aug-Oct 1917] (CPF 99)
OEF 250-2 'The One Remains', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 100). Includes 3 fair copies with corrections (250; 251; 252)
OEF 253-6 'The Sleeping Beauty', n.d. (CPF 101). Includes one rough draft (253) and three fair copies (254; 255; 256).
OEF 257 'Sonnet / The City Lights', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 102)
OEF 258 'Sonnet / Autumnal', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 102)
OEF 259 'The unreturning' [1912-1913] (CPF 104). An early draft which includes a draft letter to the vicar of Dunsden.
OEF 260 'The unreturning', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918]. A fair copy revising 259.
OEF 261-2 'Perversity', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 105). Two fair copies with corrections.
OEF 263 'The Peril of Love', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 107). Two fair copies with corrections.
OEF 265 'The Poet in Pain', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 108). Verso contains rough working and lists of rhyming words, dated 'Good Friday 1918'.
OEF 266-9 'Whither is passed the softly-vanished day', [1911-1912; revised Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 109). Includes to Siegfried Sassoon (266; 267). 266 has corrections. 267 has a note in pencil: 'Written in 1911 or 1912 I believe. Susan Owen.' 268 and 269 fair copy MSS.
OEF 270-1 'On My Songs', 271 dated 'Jan. 4 1913' (CPF 110). Includes one page of rough working (270) and a heavily corrected draft (271).
OEF 272 '1914', [late 1914] (CPF 113)
OEF 273 '1914', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 113). Revised fair copy of 272.
OEF 274 'Purple', dated 'Sept: 1916' (CPF 114)
OEF 275 'On a Dream', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 115)
OEF 276 'Stunned by their life's explosion', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 116)
OEF 277 'The Ballad of Many Thorns', [Oct 1917-Jan 1918] (CPF 118)
OEF 278-84 'Apologia Pro Poemate Meo' [Nov-Dec 1917] (CPF 123). Includes rough drafts, the second entitled 'The Unsaid'.
OEF 285 'Le Christianisme' [Nov-Dec 1917] (CPF 126). Includes 285b, a printed page mounted in error.
OEF 286 'On a Head of Golden Hair', dated 'Feb. 1917' (CPF 125)
OEF 287-90 'The Women and the Slain', [Jun-Aug 1915; revised Nov-Dec 1917] (CPF 126). Includes three drafts. 287 entitled 'The Ballad of Peace and War'. 288 and 289-90 two MSS entitled 'The Ballad of Purchase-Money'.
Date
[1911-12]-[Oct 1917-Jan 1918]
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box
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Collection contents
Archive of Wilfred Owen and family members
Wilfred Owen's autograph manuscripts, and other papers of special interest
Verse, mostly rough drafts
