BIB_ID
283567
Accession number
MA 7313
Creator
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Display Date
undated [1910].
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund, 2009.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.3 cm
Notes
The poem is untitled in this draft. At the bottom of the page a note in Ezra Pound's hand reads: "Mss. of W.B. Yeats. EP."
Written in black ink on a sheet of notepaper watermarked "Walker's / Expert / M.S.S."
The poem was first published with the title "Raymond Lully and his wife Pernella / Peace" and later re-titled "Peace."
Dated from John Kelly's A W. B. Yeats Chronology.
Written in black ink on a sheet of notepaper watermarked "Walker's / Expert / M.S.S."
The poem was first published with the title "Raymond Lully and his wife Pernella / Peace" and later re-titled "Peace."
Dated from John Kelly's A W. B. Yeats Chronology.
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: WALKER'S EXPERT M.S.S.
Provenance
James Gilvarry (his sale, Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 562). Acquired by his nephew Seamus Flynn.
Summary
Lines 8 and 9 in this draft are variant readings to the published text of the poem. In this draft these lines read: "So much sternness & such charm / Till they[']d roused us to that strength'". This draft of the poem also lacks much of the punctuation found in the published text.
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