Verse, mostly juvenilia and rough drafts, [Sep-Nov 1912]-[Jul-Aug 1917]
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)
Dates
- Creation: [Sep-Nov 1912]-[Jul-Aug 1917]
Extent
1 box
Language of Materials
- English
Conditions Governing Access
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Shelfmark
MS. 12282/2
Former reference:
OEF 70-225
Existence and Location of Copies
Researchers should first consult the digital versions available on the World War I Poetry Digital Archive and Jon Stallworthy's edition of Wilfred Owen: The Complete Poems and Fragments (London, 1983; revised 2013).
Creator
- From the Collection: Owen | Wilfred Edward Salter | 1893-1918 | poet (Person)
Repository Details
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