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Frederick Philip Grove
LANDSCAPES
(IM 16-28)
e-Edition by Gaby Divay
© August 2007
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of Grove's Poems: In Memoriam
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Notes
to the LANDSCAPES Poems (IM 16-28)
[1] IM 16 exists as NB 24 without "Nova Scotia,
1909". Greve left Germany for North America
"via Canada" in September 1909. --
NB 24 has: "a", and "strain"
in st. 1; "some violin" in st. 3;
"I stand, close-wrapped..." in st.
5; and, in st. 11-12, "tost", "agonized",
and " back our questions asked".
Landscapes 2:
[3] This poem (IM 17) is also present in the Notebook (NB
19) with minor discrepancies in wording
in stanza 4. The specification "1924" is
absent.
Landscapes 3:
[5]This poem (IM 18) is also present in the Notebook
(NB 20) with some significant discrepancies
in wording. The specification "1924"
is lacking.
[6] NB 20: "Breathe...up".
[7] This
line reads in NB 20: "All that
is of the hour is blotted out".
[9] NB 20: "and, waxing, knows no doubt."
[13]
Replaces in NB 20 with "I lean..."
Landscapes 4:
[15]
IM 19 is present in the Notebook (NB
26) with minor discrepancies; it lacks the
specification "1914", and it covers
a heavily corrected version of NB 27 (=IM
21, "Each moment is..."). Another
close and crossed-out version of IM 19 is
written alongside NB leaf [28 a], next to
part of The Legend of the Great Survival
(st. 7-10). Grove included this poem in his
Selections (S 10), where the date is
1913, and "Pembina Mountains" are
specified as location. Dejection (IM
19) is not to be mistaken for the rejected
poem of the same title in the Notebook
(NB 25, on p. 176).
[16]
NB 26 reads "glistening".
Landscapes 5:
[18] IM 20 was published in Canadian Forum XII
(April 1932) as no. XVIII of "From the
Dirge" with minor discrepancies in the
second stanza: "tune" in line 2
is followed by a [.]; after "June"
in line 4 features a [.]; and "night-fall"
in line 3 is not hyphenated. With minor differences,
it is present in the Notebook (NB 17),
and Grove chose it to be no. 11 of Selections.
Landscapes 6:
[19] This
poem (IM 21) is also present in the Notebook
(NB 27) where it has the title Past and
Future, but lacks the specification "1923".
In addition, there is a heavily corrected
version under NB 26 (IM 19, "I never
thought..."). The poem was also chosen
by Grove for his Selections (S 12).
[23]
NB 27: "trans formed".
[24] The commata around "unblurred" are lacking
in NB 22; also at the end of l. 1 and 2 of
st. 4.
Landscapes 8:
[26] This poem (IM 23) was published in Canadian
Forum XII (April 1932) as no. XIX of "From
the Dirge"; FD 19 has "November
blasts" in the opening line, and there
is a colon after "The year rolls on"
in st. 3 , l. 1. Grove included this poem
as no. 13 of his Selections with the
title "Fall in Manitoba".
[28] This poem (IM 24) was published twice in Canadian
Forum: once in v. X (November, 1929),
and then again in v. XII (April, 1932) as
no. XX of "From the Dirge". The
following minor discrepancies are noted: st.
3, l. 3 features no [,] after "death"
in the 1929 CF version, and the 1932 CF version
reads "...in prayer are bowed"
in st. 1, l. 4. -- "Indian Summer"
is reminiscent of Greve's "Erster Sturm"
(1907; on p. 48), but the Fall theme is treated
quite differently there.
Landscapes 10:
[29] This poem (IM 25) is also present in the Notebook
(NB 10) with substantial corrections to the
third couplet. It has also been chosen by
Grove as no. 14 of Selections.
[30]
NB 10 reads: "Down there, the gliding
river...".
Landscapes 11:
[32] This poem (IM 26) is also present in the Notebook
(NB28) with two minor discrepancies in punctuation:
at the end of st. 3, l. 2 and in the middle
of the last line, a comma has been omitted.
There are similarities with the last Fanny
Essler poem by virtue of the theme of
first snow.
Landscapes 12:
[33] This poem (IM 27) is also present in the
Notebook (NB 14) with minor changes
in wording. It was chosen by Grove as
no. 15 of Selections.
Landscapes 13:
[35] This poem (IM 28) is also attached to "A
Dream Vision" (IM 32) in the Spettigue-Collection,
where it has the Roman numeral VI instead
of a title. Variations are listed below. IM
28 is present as NB 13 except that the final
line is a statement rather than a question,
starting: " Thus will the mirror...grow
dim.". Grove included IM 28 in his Selections
(S16).
[36] Reads in SC: "That thought inclined
to think that it might be".
[37]
Reads in SC: "thee".
[38] In SC: "in my silent soul".
[39]
SC reads "Thy" here and in l. 3.
[41]
SC: "...but that...".
Legends 1:
[43] This poem which has confessional
character exists solely as IM 29.
Legends 2:
[44] IM 30 has 65 quatrains,
flowing without interruption. The final stanza
is separated graphically -- as in Greve's
long poem Sage.
The poem also exists in the Notebook
(NB 18); differences in wording affect 25
stanzas, and have been underlined here in
the text; for variants, see the appendix.
The date "1915" is lacking in NB
18. Grove chose this Legend for his
Selections (S 17).
Legends 3:
[45] This poem (IM 31) also exists in the Notebook
(NB 22) with a fair amount of corrections.
Grove included it in his Selections
as no. 18.
[46] Two lines are crossed out before this stanza in
NB 22. "This" reads "That",
and "moulded" is "detailed";
l. 3 reads "dale", and l. 4 inserts
"up" between "zone...to".
[47]
NB 22: "has ever"; l. 3 reads
"And".
[48]
NB 22: "fine drawn".
[50]
The following three lines are quite different
in the manuscript NB 22!
[51]
NB 22: " if such a goal there
be." The variant in l. 2 reads: "Still
I must travel and".
[52]
NB 22: "When I encounter them..."
IM 32:
[53] This poem [IM 32] seemingly was intended as a
conclusion either to the entire In Memoriam
cycle, or the The Dirge complex. It
is is only present in the Spettigue Collection.
There is a manuscript comment in Grove's hand
written alongside, and another one, by Catherine
Grove, is written beneath it.
[54] Manuscript correction to typed: "...like
in a fen-bred sheen -".
[55] Grove's handwritten note says: "One night,
shortly after the little girl's death, when
for many nights the writer had had no sleep
because he was so profoundly disquieted by
the mysteries of life and death which surround
us on all sides, he at last sank away into
some sort of restless rest, and his eyelids
closed. But they had hardly done so when a
vision harried his absent mind; and shortly
he awoke in a sweat. He rose, lighted a lamp,
and went down into his study where he tried
briefly to record what he had seen."
Catherine Grove's note reads: "Similarly,
Phil has written on most of the poems which
I have, and which he left in an envelope marked
'Property of Catherine Grove'."
[56]
NB 13 reads: "Thus will...".
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Grove, Frederick Philip. POEMS:
In Memoriam Phyllis May Grove. THOUGHTS (IM1-14).
e-Edition, Gaby Divay. Winnipeg: UM Archives & Special
Collections, ©2007.
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