Verse, mostly rough drafts, [1911-12]-[Oct 1917-Jan 1918]

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MS. 12282/3

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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’.

Dates

Creation: [1911-12]-[Oct 1917-Jan 1918]

Extent

1 box

Language of Materials

English

Conditions Governing Access

To ensure its availability to future readers, access to this item is restricted, and readers are asked to work from reproductions and published descriptions as far as possible. To apply to see the original, please send a message to specialcollections.enquiries@bodleian.ox.ac.uk, outlining the subject of your research, the importance of this item to that research, and the resources you have already consulted. Please also tell us about the timeframe for your project, if any, and when you hope to visit.

Shelfmark

MS. 12282/3

Former reference:

OEF 226-290

Additional Description

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).