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Frederick Philip Grove
NOTES
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
e-Edition by Gaby Divay
© August 2007
How to cite this e-Edition of Grove's Miscellaneous Poems
Notes:
Poems in Notebook & Miscellaneous
Poems (NB & MP)
Legend/Survival
[1] The typescript
MP 11 has 66 quatrains, and is obciously based on the manuscript in the Notebook
(NB 29), there are few differences in wording (underlined in the text), but
many in structure, notably in st. 37-40 (pp. 159-60), and in the last six stanzas
(p. 163). For variants, see the appendix.
[2]
Two lines crossed out in the manuscript.
[3]
L. 3-4 replace two lines in NB 29; on this page, a rejected draft of IM 19.
[4]
The next four stanzas (MP 11, st. 37-40) are in a different order in NB 11.
[5]
This line is quite different in NB. 29, st. 45,
[6]
L. 3-4 replace two lines crossed out in NB 29, st. 64; st. 61-66 much corrected.
Konrad:
[1] This poem is the last item in the Notebook
(NB 35). For seven quatrains which are
glossing the first three stanzas in the
right margin, and for a variant beginning
inserted on a loose-leaf, see the appendix.
[2] "...youth..." replaces"...child...".
[3]
"...he might go far..." replaces"...so
he went far...".
[4]
"...struck out..." replaces"...one
day...".
[5]
This is obviously Mainz, as "Wurtzburg"
is Würzburg.
[6]
"...shaking" is replacing "...pervading...".
[7]
"...casement..." replaces "...window...".
[8]
"...in course of time..." supersedes"...after
years..."
[9]
"...that burns..." replaces
"...to wound", which is replaced
with "...to scorch...".
[10]
"...tried..." replaces"...attempted..."
[11]
"...stammered..." replaces"...spoke...".
[12]
"...considered..." replaces"...well-balanced...".
[13]"...triumph, mixed with" replaces crossed
out "...a dull, mounting...".
[14] Written over "...must...".
[15] "...the thrills of him who knows" replaces"...the
shattering thrills and throes".
[16] This line is the final version of two previous
attempts: an original "Of one who
had the things of heaven bared" is
replaced with "Because to lift heaven's
curtain he had dared", which in turn
is rejected in favour of a new line.
[17] Grove underlined both this word and the identical
one in the previous line, thus indicating
that he was aware of the repetition. He
no doubt intended to improve this stylistic
blunder later on.
[18]
Both line breaks in this stanza are intentional.
[19] "...one trembling sigh" replaces "...a
breathing sigh".
[20] "...wrestled with his God and called him
king" replaces "...poured his
anguish out to the great king".
[21] "And poured..." replaces crossed out
"And all the...".
[22] Before "Above" featured initially "And
God".
[23] After "Above", crossed out: "him".
[24] "...indifference" replaces "...frigidity".
[25] "...a..." replaces "...some".
[26] Under "who", "those" is crossed
out.
[27]
For"...in him a vision rose", originally stood: "...a poignant vision rose".
Lyrical Poems:
Dejection
[1]
This poem exists only in the Notebook (NB 16), where Grove wrote "rejected"
in the margin. "...symphonies" replaces
"harmonies".
[3]
Uncertain
reading, even though the word is written quite
clearly.
[5]
Replaces: "paved and"
[6]
"...You were in there" replaces:"you lived among the
trees"
Discordant Strains
[8a] In spite of the title being identical to the In Memoriam poem no. 19, "I never thought a day...", this is a unique manuscript in the Notebook (NB 25) where it is marked "rejected".
[9] illegible adjective. Replaces: "if"
[10]
"...hard light"
is crossed out, but reinstated by means of dotted underlining.
[11]
Next to "... hard light", in the margin, and also crossed out, stands "needle eye".
[12] Crossed out, in the margin: "concealed within the edge".
[13] "...comes near the ever..." replaces: "emerges at the".
[14] "...and slips..." replaces: "and ruins".
[16]
Crossed out: "Thus she and I, though seemingly at rest / Still
sit and waltz".
You and I
[1] There are three slightly different versions of You and I (MP
4) in the folder of Miscellaneous Poems.
Version c presented here appears to be
the latest. Variants in MP 4a-b are indicated
below.
[1]
MP 4a has typed "Oh" in all stanzas; only in st. 1, v. 1
is the h crossed out; the change is honoured
in MP 4b+c.
[18] Ms. correction to crossed out: "white"; versions MP 4a-b
have"...white, white woods".
[19] Version a inserts a typed comma here:..."me, your hand!"
[20] Version MP 4a uses a period, MP 4 b+c a colon; MP 4b has the typescript
corrected to read "My wish did not
come true", a change which is ignored in
MP 4c!
[21] These three stanzas are fitted with the others on one page in all
versions.
[22] MP 4a has a manuscript correction to " the vapour vault..."
(ignored in 4b+c).
[23] Version a has an exclamation mark here.
[24] Version b uses a comma here.
[25] Written over typed"...to where..." (both MP 4a+b
have "...to where...").
[26] MP 4a has ms. correction to typed "Grey curves the shore..."
(change reflected in both MP 4 b+c).
[27] Ms. change to typed "flies" in MP 4a (reading uncertain;
change reflected in MP 4b+c).
Retrospective
[28] Both this poem (MP 5) and the following poem "The Sonnet"
(MP 6) are typed on the verso of the page of
version a of "You and I" (MP
4). Note that "Retrospection" is formally
an inverted sonnet, featuring two triplets followed
by two contracted quartets, whereas "The
Sonnet" adheres to the traditional requirements
of the sonnet-form! Since the title of the "Sonnet"
is crossed out in the typescript, the visual
impression suggests that Grove intended the
two poems to form a mirror-image couplet.
[30] The title of MP 6 is crossed out in ink, as if the poem was meant
to be a continuation of Retrospection
typed on the same page above it.
[31] These first four words are a manuscript correction to typed "The
sonnet is a pool...".
[32] Replaces typed "...this curving shore." Rivalling
with this change is also "...the
curving shore."
[33]"Far flung" is crossed out, and replaced with ms. "brandled"
or "handled" which a difficult to
decipher.
[34] "Life"
is crossed out, and "Time" or "Thine"
is written in the left margin (uncertain reading).
[35] MP 7b is typed with Arctic Woods (MP 8a) on one page. Variants
of the earlier version MP 7a, which is typed
on the verso and lacks the collective title,
are recorded in the following notes. -- An allegorical
Night is also the theme in Greve's "Grüss
ich dich wieder..." (WA 12, p. 13).
[36] Ms. "halts" replaces typed "stands"; a rivaling
ms. correction "looms" is crossed
out.
[37] MP 7a uses a semicolon.
[38] Ms. correction to typed "But not a star..." in MP
7a (honoured in MP 7b).
[39] MP 7a has typed "Tensely atremble..." corrected in ms. to
read like version MP 7b.
[40] Arctic woods (MP 8a) follows version MP 7b of Night
on the same page. The later version MP 8b (p.
58) lacks the titles "From Poems of the
Lakes and Woods" and "Visions",
and is placed next to its German original "Dies
ist der Wald...". Variants are noted below.
[41] MP 8b has the ms. correction"hollows".
[42] MP 8b has the ms. correction"look".
[43] Typed correction of "and". MP 8b has also "as".
[44] MP 8b has the ms. correction"sound nor far nor near" for
"I look up in fear".
[45] Uncertain reading: it could be "no", which would change
the content considerably to "I am no one
who flees".
[46] Ms. "I am as one who flees." replaces typed "I sink
on to my knees." -- MP 8b has a different
ms. correction to the identical typed line:
"And not a soul that sees".
[47] This poem (MP 9b) is typed on a separate page with the heading Visions.
The Dying Year is represented in the
earlier version MP 9a on p. 56, where it follows
Grove's "Die Dünen fliegen auf..."[=
Greve's "Erster Sturm", 1907]. Variants
of the earlier version are underlined in the
text and referred to below. Note that MP 9b
has only two manuscript changes, namely those
addressed in n. 4 and 5.
[48] The ms. changes to typed "The yellow dunes fly up..." in
MP 9a, reading "Up flow the yellow sands...",
have not been included in MP 9b.
[49] MP 9a has the ms. correction "Till" for typed "Where",
which is also ignored.
[50] Ms. "rear up" written below typed and crossed out "oppose".
-- MP 9a has typed "oppose", and a
ms. correction to read "a cliffy
shore".
[51] "charger" is a ms. correction in the left margin to typed
"courser".
[52] "Through" is a ms. correction to "in the frightened
crowd..." in MP 9a.
[53] This ms. correction to typed "shroud" in MP 9a is not reflected
here in MP 9b.
[54] This reflects a ms. correction to typed "that the soil be soft!"
in MP 9a.
[55] MP 9a has the ms. correction "sail bulging" which is ignored
here.
[56] MP 9a has a ms. change to "While" -- it is not reflected
here.
[57] A ms. correction in the margin of this typed line in MP 9a is not
reflected here in MP 9b: "The dying year
adopts them as his frill."
[58] Reflects a ms. correction in MP 9a to typed "As stern he rides
on to his grave, the past".
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Collections, ©2007.
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