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Autograph Fragments of Two Arnold Poems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

William Leigh Godshalk
William Leigh Godshalk*
Affiliation:
University of Cincinnati
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Abstract

On 14 August 1869, Matthew Arnold copied fragments of The Buried Life and Stanzas in Memory of the Late Edward Quillinan, Esq., on the flyleaves of a set of the two-volume edition of his Poems (London, 1869). The volumes belonged to a longtime friend of Arnold, Jemima Quillinan, daughter of Edward Quillinan and step-granddaughter of William Wordsworth. The fragments are valuable because they contain unrecorded variants, and the fragment of The Buried Life is especially interesting in that Arnold has changed the meaning of the lines. After Jemima's death, the volumes went to May Wordsworth and are now in the possession of the author.

Type
Notes, Documents, and Critical Comment
Information
PMLA , Volume 85 , Issue 1 , January 1970 , pp. 118 - 119
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1970

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References

1 Kenneth Allott, ed., The Poems of Matthew Arnold (London, 1965). Allott has examined Xerox copies of the fragments, and Fraser Neiman has examined the physical volumes. Both have attested the authenticity of Arnold's hand. The fragments are published with the kind permission of Arnold Whitridge and Major Peter Thwaites.

2 Mr. George Healey has very kindly provided me with a Xerox copy of Rotha's autograph in the Cornell Wordsworth Collection. See George Harris Healey, The Cornell Wordsworth Collection: A Catalogue (Ithaca, N. Y., 1957), item 2270.

3 See Mary Moorman, William Wordsworth: A Biography: The Later Years, 1803–1850 (Oxford, 1965), p. 485.

4 See Allott, pp. 243, 390–391.

5 The information concerning Mary Wordsworth has been provided by Stephen Gill of the Wordsworth Library, Grasmere. John Wordsworth is mentioned in C. A. Parker, The Gosforth District, revised by W. G. Collingwood (Kendal, 1926), pp. 59–60.