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Collected Poems, 1909-1935, Faber and Faber, 1954, fifteenth impression, 1963

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2

Corrected and revised by the author, in preparation for new edition. Following is a notation of the changes. Textual comparisons refer to the American edition of Collected Poems, by Harcourt, Brace, 1963. Front matter. Front fly-leaf reads `This copy to be used in preparing next edition. Return to T.S.E.' Publication list notes ‘See new copy'...[  ].  Title page with correction reads Collected Poems 1909 - 1935 62 by T.S. Eliot London Faber and Faber Limited, 24 Russell Square. Copyright and printing history is crossed out, which included written notice of Sixteenth impression MCMl[iv]. Table of Contents notes `Reader to check the page nos - will be 2 on [foot note?]' Ariel Poems - dates have been added after each title, and Cultivation of Christmas Trees - 1954 has been included in this section.  Unfinished poems. Date 1931 has been added to Triumphal March. Minor Poems. Five finger exercises III changes title to Lines to a Duck in the Park. Choruses from `The Rock' adds date 1934. All of Four Quartets included, and Occasional Verses compose the final sections. Titles and dates written in. Revisions occur on the following pages: 9, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 28, 37, 38, 41, 62, 63, 64, 68, 75, 79, 80, 83, 84, 100, 107, 129, 147, 152, 153 of which the following are substantive: 9, 28, 79, 80, 83, 84, 100. Notations occur on the following: 31, 114, 183. Page 183 notes `Here take in the Four Quartets (set from file copy herewith, and [  ] as [  ] dummy herewith)' Back fly-leaf notes `Take in Four Quartets on p. 195 followed by Occasional Verses.'  Paging is corrected, in anticipation of additions, beginning p. 114.  Transferred to Rare Books (PS3509 L43 A17 1954).  101 pages, 8 x 5 1/2"

Dates

  • Creation: 1963

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