Images of manuscripts from the following poems are to be found on this page:  Wordsworth: Yew Trees, Wordsworth's The Vale of Esthwaite, Keats: Ode to the Nightingale,  To Autumn, Lamia, T.S> Eliot, first page of a manuscript of The Wasteland, Virginia, Yeats "Wild Swans at Coole", Plath "Stings" (manuscripts and typescripts with corrections)

Wordsworth: early draft of Yew Trees

(www.sfu.ca/~curtis/ Wordsworth/images/OrchPath.jpg)

The first page of the manuscript of 

Wordsworth's The Vale of Esthwaite

(www.sfu.ca/~curtis/ Wordsworth/images/Vale.jpg)

From DC MS. 3, as represented on p. 153 of Early Poems and Fragments, 1785-1797;
photograph courtesy of The Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere.

Keats:  Ode to the Nightingale

(from englishhistory.net/marilee/lamiamanuscript.jpg) 

(page 1)

(page 2)

(page 3)

(page 4)

Keats "To Autumn"

(www.english.upenn.edu/.../ eng-305/materials/)

(page 1)

Keats.  First page of Lamia.

(from englishhistory.net/marilee/lamiamanuscript.jpg) 

Thomas Hardy "The Forsaking of the Next"

(www.loc.gov/exhibits/ british/images/vc206ap1.jpg)

(page 1)

(page 2)

T. S. Eliot

The first page of The Waste Land manuscript, when the poem was titled "He Do the Police in Different Voices." 

(The Waste Land: A Facsimile and Transcript of the Original Drafts, ed. Valerie Eliot [New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971])

(from the Eliot Homepage)

T. S. Eliot.  "Virginia"

(eliot.landrum.cx/ archives/2001/10/22/)

Yeats "Wild Swans at Coole"

(page 1)

(page 2)

Sylvia Plath Stings

(www.english.uiuc.edu/.../ plath/stingsdrafts.htm)