51478: Notebook Containing Drafts of 27 Poems, 1914-1915
Creators: name: Project Team, First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: A notebook signed on f. 162v 'Edward Thomas/Wick Green/Petersfield. The book is used in reverse and has been foliated accordingly. On ff. 1v - 27 are drafts of 27 poems occurring between numbers 7 and 74 in The Collected Poems, dated between 14th Dec 1914 and 23rd May 1915. Blank for 27v except a few lines of after rain on f. 159v | File description(s):Green cloth tooled with a gold fillet. The book is used in reverse and has been foliated accordingly.Shelfmark added by the National Lirary of Wales.<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'After Rain' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Barn and the Down' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Two Pewits' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Will you come?' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Path' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'A Tale' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after it's first line. The poem is number 51 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'A Gentleman' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Lob' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Lovers' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Digging' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Home [2]' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Health' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but is named here after it's first line as it appears in Edward Thomas the Collected Poems (no. 64).<br>The manuscript does not have a title and is named here after it's first line. The poem is number 64 in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Song' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Melancholy' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'A Cat' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems<br>The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Tonight' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems<br>The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'April' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems<br>The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'July' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems. At the top of the page are the last lines to 'Glory'.<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Chalk Pit' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'The Chalk Pit' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems<br>This manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Sedge Warblers' in Edward Thomas Collected Poems<br>The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'Sedge-Warblers' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems<br>The manuscript is untitled but entitled 'After Rain' in Edward Thomas Selected Poems<br>Inscription reads ""Edward Thomas, Nick Green, Petersfield""