Verse, mostly juvenilia and rough drafts

Title

Verse, mostly juvenilia and rough drafts

Shelfmark

MS. 12282/2

Summary

Comprises:

OEF 70-1 'Tis but love's shadow', [Sep-Nov 1912] (CPF 27)

OEF 72 'Hearts and Tarts', Sep 1912 (CPF 28)

OEF 73 'There is a set of men', Sep 1912 (CPF 29)

OEF 74 'Science Contradicted', Sep 1912 (CPF 30)

OEF 75-102 'The Little Mermaid', [late 1912] (CPF 31). Complete exercise book.

OEF 103-139 'The Little Mermaid', [late 1912] (CPF 31). Complete exercise book with additional folio pasted in.

OEF 140-180 'The Little Mermaid', [late 1912] (CPF 31). TS.

OEF 181-2 'The Two Reflections', [Autumn 1912] (CPF 32)

OEF 183 'Listen! the multitude', Autumn 1912 (CPF 33)

OEF 184 'Deep under turfy grass', [Oct 1912-Jun 1913] (CPF 34)

OEF 185 'Unto what pinnacles', 6 Nov 1912 (CPF 35)

OEF 186-90 'Impromptu / I have none other', Jan 1913 (CPF 36)

OEF 191 'Now what's your Poet', Jan 1913 (CPF 37)

OEF 192-4 'Sonnet / Daily I muse', 9 Jan 1913 (CPF 38). Includes draft MS and TS.

OEF 195-6 'Scene: The Con Val-Escent Stage', [Feb-Mar 1913] (CPF 39)

OEF 197 'I Began to Run', [Apr 1913] (CPF 42)

OEF 198 'All children', [mid-1913-Jul 1914] (CPF 46)

OEF 199-200 'The Imbecile', Sep 1913 (CPF 47). Includes the original French 'La Folle', by Henry Weiss, in Wilfred Owen's hand, and a fair copy of the first stanza of his English translation. On the verso of 200 is found a list of pararhymes, several of which appear in 'Has your soul sipped' (228-30).

OEF 201 'Tom Tit', [Sep 1913-Jul 1914] (CPF 48)

OEF 202 Completion of 'Tonight I have my friar', [Aug 1914] (CPF 49)

OEF 203 'Instead of dew', [Aug 1914] (CPF 50)

OEF 204 'Ballad of the Morose Afternoon', [late Aug 1914] (CPF 51). Includes on verso 'We two had known', [late Aug 1914] (CPF 52).

OEF 205 'O World of many Worlds', [late 1912] (CPF 54)

OEF 206 'Nous ne nous fions', [Aug-Dec 1914] (CPF 56)

OEF 207 'On seeing a lock of Keats' Hair', [late 1912] (CPF 58)

OEF 208 'About the winter forecast loomed', [Mar-Apr 1915] (CPF 59)

OEF 209 'The sun, far fallen', [May-Jun 1915] (CPF 60). Written on the back of a note from Colin Owen.

OEF 210 'Impromptu', [Jun-Aug 1915] (CPF 64)

OEF 211-14 'A Palinode', Oct 1915 (CPF 65)

OEF 215 'I know that I have paid', [late 1916] (CPF 73)

OEF 216 'Perseus / Shook and were bowed', [1915] (CPF 82)

OEF 217-23 'Ballad of Lady Yolande', [Jun-Jul 1917] (CPF 84)

OEF 224 'Happiness', Feb 1917 (CPF 85)

OEF 225 'Lines to a Beauty seen in Limehouse', [Jul-Aug 1917] (CPF 87)

Date

[Sep-Nov 1912]-[Jul-Aug 1917]

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box