Personae - Manuscripts, typescripts, of Gallup A3

The archive consists of virtually all the manuscripts used for printing Personae: the first fifteen poems were probably printed from a marked copy of A Lume Spento. There are ninety-eight pages of holograph manuscripts, some being notes on the versos, and eleven pages of corrected typescripts. Of the thirty-three poems in the 1909 edition of Personae, there are eighteen present: five exist in one draft, eleven in two drafts, and two in three drafts. Pencil markings denote the printer's copy-text drafts of all eighteen poems. The worksheets are sometimes initial drafts and sometimes obvious redraftings transcribed from earlier compositions. The manuscripts begin with "Praise of Ysolt" (p. 28 of the published book) and of the poems which follow, only "Comraderie [Camaraderie]", "Masks", "Ballad for Gloom" and "For E. McC." are lacking (all these latter had already been published in A Lume Spento). The versos of the manuscripts contain an interesting variety of notes, a draft of "Roundel" (not published in Pound's lifetime) and what appears to be an early plan for the book (E.P. Po. 76). Of the variants present in the manuscripts, the most interesting are the notes that Pound cut from the text and particularly from the appendix "Notes on New Poems". For variants see "Personae: From Manuscript to Print", [Studies in Bibliography, Dec. 1981].

Creator

• Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972

Subject

• Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Literary collections
• Literature
• Authors, American
• Poets, American
• Authors
• Authorship
• Poets

Language

• eng

Identifier

• E.P.Po.1-E.P.Po.107

Date created

• 1909

Resource type

• Text

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 104 leaves

Additional physical characteristics

• Handwritten in black ink

Physical repository

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Collection

• Ezra Pound Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• poetry
• proofs (printed matter)
• manuscripts (documents)
• typescripts

Archival item identifier

• Series 01: Manuscripts - Poetry, File: 2.1 - 2.4

Fonds title

• Ezra Pound collection

Fonds identifier

• SC096

Is referenced by

• Special Collections finding aid: https://uvic2.coppul.archivematica.org/ezra-pound-collection

Date digitized

• April 2024 to June 2024

Technical note

• Scanned on EPSON 13000XL. 600 dpi no correction. Metadata by MT.

Rights

• Use of this material is permitted for research and private study purposes only to the UVic researcher community. For all other uses, contact University of Victoria Special Collections and University Archives.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/0g4g-2q83