| Admin/Biog History | During this period, Waterfield was reading History at Christ Church, Oxford (1927-30) or had recently graduated. |
| Description | In this notebook, Waterfield records poems he wrote between February 1927 and May 1931, as well as poems that appear to be others, including Goethe, du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard. The notebook is almost complete and contains c 60 poems, generally a page or two in length. The majority of the poems are dated underneath, usually just by month and year.
While around half of the poems are untitled, it includes poems with the following titles or headings:
-Vancouver
-Victoria, B.C.
-The Harvest
-Helen of Troy
-New York
-Mignonne, allons voir
, which appears to be a translation of the ode by Pierre de Ronsard
-La Notte, Michelangelo
-To Dante
-Song of Aphrodite
-Disillusion
-History
-June
-Song for a motorist
-So lasst mich scheinen, Goethe
-A vous troppe legere [À vous, trouppe légère], Du Bellay
-The [Daisy]
-O. Sitwell [Osbert Sitwell]
-The Toll Gate
-Elms
-Sunset
-The Peony
-Moonrise
-Cymodoce, two poems with this title
-From the Italian: The Leaning Tower
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