title	notes
Agenda, spring 1969	No marginalia.
Art and literature, an International quarterly	No marginalia.
Bhagavad-Gita: the song of God	No marginalia.
book of Tao, The	No marginalia.
Cherry-Blossoms - Haiku - Japanese Series III	No marginalia.
Contemporary literature: Spring 1968	No marginalia.
Contemporary literature: Summer 1969	No marginalia.
Contemporary literature: Winter 1967	No marginalia.
Contemporary literature: Winter 1969	No marginalia.
Contemporary literature: Winter 1970	No marginalia.
Elson's pocket music dictionary	"Lorine Niedecker" written in blue ink on front cover. p. 25: "fa do" in pencil after "Cadence, plagal." p. 34: Note added to treble clef, a-note above and below treble clef identified in discussion of "Clarinet." pp. 84-85: Table of instruments is numbered 1-4; "=" written near Tuba and Saxhorns; check marks after Bass-drum and Tambourine. p. 177: "rate of vibration" underlined in definition of "Pitch."
Every man's Bible	No marginalia.
Haiku - Translated from masters of the seventeen----	Is this under another title?
Handbook of Marxism	p. 7: Checkmark in table of contents next to XXIV. V.I. Lenin - What is to be done: Dogmatism and 'Freedom of Criticism' - Trade Union Politics and Social Democratic Politics. p. 9: In table of contents page number 855 is boxed with pencil for item V.I. Lenin - 'Left-Wing' Communism: an Infantile Disorder. pP. 730-731: Quote by Kautsky is marked in the margin with "US?" - "... there are periods whedn the warring classes so nearly attain equilibrium that the State power, ostensibly appearing as a mediator, assumes for the moment a certain independence in relation to both." Paragraph beginning "Such, we may add, is now the Kerensky government..." on page 730 is marked in margin. Paragraph beginning "In a democratic republic..." at top of page 731 is marked in margin. Seven lines beginning with "A democratic republic is the best possible..." in last full paragraph on paged 731 are marked in margin and have a question mark along side. This sentence is marked in margin and has two question marks along side: "We must also note that Engels quite definitely regards universal suffrage as a means of bourgeois domination." p. 732: Portion of a quote from Engels is marked boldly in margin: "We are now rapidly approaching a stage in the development of production at which the existence of these classes has not only ceased to be a necessity but is becoming a positive hindrance to production." p. 734: Four lines of a quote from Engel at top of page are marked in the margin, starting with: "...a State, is no longer necessary.." The following sentence is marked in the margin along with a question mark: "The current popular conception, if one may say so, of the 'withering away' of the State undoubtedly means a slurring over, if not a negation, of revolution." p. 738: Five lines beginning with "Eclecticism is substituted for dialectics..." are marked in the margin, with a question mark along side.
Holy Bible	Notation on the page at front listing the names of the Old and New Testament books: "Job written 5th or 4th cent. B.C." pp. 378-379: The following verses are marked: 1 Kings 6: 4, 7, 9, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 35, 37, 38. The word "years" is added in the margin at the end of the chapter. p. 387: The following verses are marked: 1 Kings 10: 23. 1 Kings 11: 9. p. 389: The following verses are marked: 1 Kings 11:36. "40 years" is written near verse 42. p. 429: The following verse is marked: 2 Kings 17: 33. pp. 436-438: The following verses are marked: 2 Kings 23: 3, 26, 27, 37. pp. 439-440: The following verse is marked: 2 Kings 25: 9, 21 pp. 942-943: The following verses are marked: Matthew 5: 16, 20, 26, 38 [question mark in margin], 43. pp. 945-946: The following verses are marked: Matthew 6: 1, 9-13, 24, 34. p. 945: The following verse is marked: Matthew 7: 1. p. 985: The following verse is marked: Mark 7: 37. p. 988: The following verse is marked: Mark 9: 29. p. 997: The following verse is marked: Mark 14: 72. p. 1002: The following verse is marked: Luke 2: 20. pp. 1068-1069: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 1: 2, 7, 26. p. 1074: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 5: 11. p. 1075: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 6: 7. p. 1077: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 7: 33, 47. pp. 1078-1079: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 8: 3, 40. p. 1080: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 9: 31. p. 1082: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 10: 45. pp. 1085-1086: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 13: 1-3, 50-52. p. 1089: The following verse is marked: Acts of the Apostles 15: 35. pp. 1091-1092: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 17: 21, 23, 28. p. 1093: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 18: 22; Acts of the Apostles 19: 9. p. 1094: Acts of the Apostles 19: 24 has a question mark in margin next to it. p. 1095: Acts of the Apostles 20: 4 has "Omit" in margin and parens around "into Asia." p. 1097: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 21: 21, 23, 28. p. 1100: The following verses are marked: Acts of the Apostles 23: 28-29.
Italy, vacation guidebook	No marginalia.
Lamb's tales from Shakespeare	On first page: From Mrs. Bowen - 1918. Bottom of page 77: "1380 word." pp. 80-81: Lines in pencil between four lines of the text, apparently unrelated to anything. p. 83: Bracket and question mark in margin for: "From the Fleance descended a race of monarchs who afterwards filled the Scottish throne, ending with James the Sixth of Scotland and the First of England, under whom the two crowns of England and Scotland were united." p. 84: "with distracted words" is underlined. p. 85: Bracket and question mark for: "... he called Macbeth by name, and bid him beware of the thane of Fife; for which caution Macbeth thanked him...." p. 86: Brackedt and underlined re. "... he began to envy the condition of Duncan, whom he had murdereds, who slept soundly in his grave...." p. 87: Another apparent random line at: "should come to Dunsinane: and now...." p. 88: Underlining re. "... in which Macbeth though feebly supported by those who called themselves his friends...," with "men [illegible ?] him" in margin. p. 89: Question mark and bracket in margin for the paragraph beginning "'Accursed be the tongue which tells me so," said the trembling Macbeth...." In bottom margin: "convulsive-action self-delusion (?) self-abuse." p. 347: In bottom margin: "67 minus 7 equals 60. 1623 she died minus 7 equals 1616 died minus 60 equals 1556 born."
New directions 11	Slip of paper with typed note, taped to first sheet of book, reads: "I rose from marsh mud Don't tell me property is sacred Sunday's motor cars New Directions review Gerard Meyer in Saturday Review of Lit. May 20, '50 'The poetry is brightened by the presence of William Carlos Williams, who has never looked so young.' 'Honorable mention also should go to some of the other writers in this medium: Lorine Niedecker for her fresh notations; Willard Maas, for his command of both strangeness and form; Marcia Nardi, for the passion and perspective in her work. And Warren Carrier's trans. of the Chilean Claudio Solar, is an effective original creation.'"
New Directions 12	p. 185: In selection of her poems, LN has drawn a line across the page to separate 6 lines from preceding poem and labeled it "Poem." In next poem she changes "sweet" to "sweat."
New Directions 13	On first page of book: "Gail Roub, 437 Adams, Fort Atkinson."
New Directions 1937	On first page of book: "Niedecker" in pencil; "Gail Roub, 437 Adams, Fort Atkinson" in ink.
New directions in prose and poetry 17	No marginalia.
New Directions in Prose and Poetry 19	No marginalia.
New directions in prose & poetry, 1938	No marginalia.
Origins (Volumes 1, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 20)	Not reviewed
Oxford book of English verse 1250-1918	No marginalia.
Paris Review, Poetry	Not reviewed
Paris review, The; no. 31, Winter-Spring 1964	No marginalia.
Paris review, The; no. 38, Summer, 1966	No marginalia.
Paris Review, Writers at Work, second series	No marginalia.
Those who built Stalingrad	No marginalia.
The law of civilization and decay	No marginalia.
Apollinaire	No marginalia.
Heliodora and other poems	p. 11: X at top of page, marks in margin near lines: to mould a clear and frigid statue; rare, of pure texture, beautiful space and line, marble to grace your inaccessible shrine. p. 18: X at top of page, poem is "Heliodora." p. 25: X at top of page, poem is "Nossis." p. 33: Second stanza in poem "Thetis" is bracketed in margin. The entire stanza of same poem at top of page 34 is also bracketed. On p. 36, the line "I, Thetis, alone" is marked. p. 39: These lines in "At Ithaca" are marked in margin: ... and the sea takes on that desperate tone of dark that wives put on when all their love is done. pp. 46-47: 18 lines from "Fragment 36" are bracketed. p. 60: Lines marked in margin: "yet to sing love,/love must first shatter us." p. 109: Lines marked in margin where the Ethiopians "are divided into two parts,/(half watch the sun rise,/half, the sun set)...." pp. 119-120: These lines seem to be marked: "... save the broad ledge of sea/which no man takes...." On second last page: "Thetis = Aneaid /sea symbol/mother of Achilles." Inside back cover: "What's O'clock? 2.15 Pictures of World Sandburg 2.50."
The religion of beauty	No marginalia.
The new American poetry: 1945-1960	Inserted between pp. 132-133: bottom of p. 6 from Aug. 26, 1960 New York Times Book Review, with photos of Denise Levertov, Frank O'Hara, Robert Duncan, Jonathan Williams, and Kenneth Koch.
Birds and their attributes	No marginalia.
The school of Donne	No marginalia.
Emily Dickinson's Poetry: Stairway of Surprise	No marginalia.
six Mid-Americvawn Chants	No marginalia.
Santayana and the sense of beauty	No marginalia.
Passages from the prose writings of ____	No marginalia.
Meditations	p. xiii: Five lines beginning with "The Stoics aspired to..." appear to be marked near bottom of the page. p. 111: Paragraph XXVII seems to be marked; it begins "Within a while the earth shall cover us all, and then she herself shall have her change." p. 113: Paragraph XXX appears to be marked; it reads: "Many of those things that trouble and straiten thee, it is in thy power to cut off, as wholly depending from mere conceit and opinion; and then thou shalt have room enough." p. 119 This sentence seems to be marked: "Thou shalt one day be full, and want for no external thing: not seeking pleasure from anything, either living or insensible, that this world can afford; neither wanting time for the continuation of thy pleasure, nor place and opportunity, nor the favour either of the weather or of men." pp. 124-125: These sentences appear to be marked: "And when shalt thou attain to the happiness of true simplicity, and unaffected gravity? When shalt thou rejoice in the certain knowledge of every particular object according to its true nature: as what the matter and substance of it is; what use it is for in the world: how long it can subsist: what things it doth consist of: who they be that are capable of it, and who they that can give it, and take it away?" Notation on last page of book: "xiii, 17, 103 - mind straight to object, 111, 113, 119, 125.
Essays and New Atlantis	p. 17: These are underlined: "Revenge is a kind of wild justice..." and "It is the glory of a man to pass by an offense...." p. 39: In top margin: "amongst, hath, doth, remaineth." These are underlined: "love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies...," "amongst all the great and worthy persons," ["there is a" is handwritten] "mad degree of love which shows that great spirits and great business" ["to keep out" is handwritten] "weak passion." Also underlined: "love can find entrance, not only into an opedn hedeart, but also into a heart well fortified..." ["encouraged" is handwritten]. p. 40 These are marked with an asterisk and underlined: "That it is impossible to love and be wise." "[L]ove is ["ever" crossed out, replaced with "always] "with ["and inward and" is crossed out] secret ["contempt" seems to be replaced with "scorn"]...." "[T]imes kindle love, and mke itr more fervent" is changed to read "time kindles love, and makes it morte 'warm'." p. 41. Several changes similar to the changes on p. 40 are made to the text on p. 41.
The narrow road to the deep north and other	No marginalia.
Flowers of evil	No marginalia.
The rise of American civilization	No marginalia.
Margaret Fuller, a biography	p. 197: In fourth full paragraph on the page, sentences are marked along the side of the text from "She felt that there was a bond between man and nature in England..." to the end of the page.
Patterns of a culture	No marginalia.
Creative Evolution	No marginalia.
The creative mind	No marginalia.
The two sources of morality and religion	No marginalia.
Mary Shelley	No marginalia.
Blaise Pascal	No marginalia.
Complete poetry of each	No marginalia.
Life of Samuel Johnson	No marginalia.
Primitive song	No marginalia.
The Greek experience	No marginalia.
The American tradition in literature	No marginalia.
Jesus, a myth	"L. Niedecker '26" in ink at top of first page. p. 40: "Iphigenia" is underlined. p. 41: An "X" near the sentence: "The cult of the Syrian god Attis had in common with Christianity the cleansing of the soul by the shedding of blood." An exclamation point and question mark in margin near the end of "No one any longer regards the Gospel according to John as documentary evidence of historical facts. It is pure symbolism, pure theology." p. 71: The paragraph beginning "Later the common people's curiosity..." may be marked near the beginning and end of it. p. 73: Near third line on page: "Corinthians" is written in pencil in the margin. "Attis" seems to be check marked at start of final paragraph on page. p. 85: These lines are marked: "A logical way of finding what is really historic would be to start eliminating what cannot possible be held such, and then see what remains. It is to be feared that the outcome would be the same as when Peer Gynt began...." p. 119: The paragraph beginning "In Genesis already, work was regarded as a curse..." and ending "... which neither sow nor reap, and yet are fed and clothed by their heavenly father" is marked in the margin. p. 184: The following sentence is marked in the margin: "In addition, their many beautiful stories and parables have for many centuries brought inspiration to poetry, painting, sculpture, and music." Notations on blank page near back of book: "bribe into betraying redundancy explicable to bring home -"
The common sense of science	No marginalia.
The poetical works of ____	No marginalia.
Fenollosa and his circle	Table of contents is marked up with full names of people listed and their the dates of their births and deaths. Writing is in pencil; it does not appear to be in LN's typical handwriting.
The world of Washington Irving	No marginalia.
Pomegranates from an English garden	p. i: First paragraph of introduction is bracketed. p. ii: Marked in margin: "It would, of course, be absurd to claim for the pomegranate the bloom and beauty of the peach...." p. iii: Bracketed: "His work is full of thought, and the thought is never commonplace. There is so much of it, and all is so fresh, and therefore unfamiliar, that some mental effort is necessary to grasp it." Also bracketed: "The expression isw always the briefest. Not onloy are no words wasted, but, where connecting ideas are easily supplied, they are often left unexpressed, the intelligence and mental activity of the reader being always taken for granted." Also bracketede: "...as Shakespeare must be studied in order to an appreciation other than seconde-hand, so must Browning be studied in order to be appreciated at all; for his writings are not yet old enough to secure much second-hand enthusiasm." pp. iii-iv: The entire paragraph numbered "4" is bracketed. pp. iv-v: The first two sentences of the paragraph at the bottom of p. iv and the beginning of page v are bracketed. The first three sentences of the paragraph starting in the middle of p. v are bracketed. p. vii: The first and last sentences of the first paragraph to start on p. vii are bracketed. p. 64: Section IX of "ABT VOGLER" is bracketed. p. 75: These lines are bracketed: "God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures/Boasts two soul-sides, one to face the world with,/One to show a woman when he loves her!" pp. 80-81: These lines of "ABT VOGLER" are bracketed, beginning with "Have I knowledge?..." on p. 80 and ending with "I climb to his feet" on p. 81. pp. 83-84: All of section XVIII of "ABT VOGLER" is bracketed.
Briggflatts	No marginalia.
Loquitur	No marginalia.
Poem: 1950	No marginalia.
The life and works of Beethoven	p. 65: Beneath page number, "146" lightly in pencil. p. 460: "Rondo A Capriccio in G Major, Op. 129" is marked with check mark. p. 478: "Rondo A Capriccio in G Major, Op. 129" is marked again.
Poems and songs	Notations on a slip of paper tucked between pp. 224-225. On one side: "Burns - He said poetry was 'a darling walk for my mind.' Gie me ae spark of..." On the other side: "'Gie me ae spark of nature's fire,' That's a 'the learning I desire;' ------------."
Life and world of George Santayana	Copy of hand-written noted inserted before page 3: "all that country, a massive grand corruption of nature (rocks) and language (basho is bon jour); Marais (Grand Marais) is to the sailors [sailors is circled] seamen more refuge than swamp. A noted dated 9-10-92 by another states: "Original of this hand-written note filed in protective Box #1 (Believed to be that of Lorine's). Probably written in late 60s when L. & AL toured around L. Superior."
Selected letters	No marginalia.
Beyond life	pp. 56: Mark in margin for two lines reading: "... and might even afford the sinner control of superhuman powers. Men have always dream thus of evading the low levels of everyday existence...." p. 248 is dog-eared, mark in margin next to: "... and to proclaim that 'All this is truth' is really on a par with observing 'All this is carbon.'" p. 264 is dog-eared and margin is marked near: "If 'realism' is a form of art, the morning newspaper is a permanent contribution to literature. Undeniably, the 'realist' invents his facts a trifle more daringly than the police reporter, and soars above mere veracity on an approximate level with the editorial writer...." p. 268 is dog-eared and marked in the margin near: "Facts must be kept in their proper place, outsideof which they lose veracity" and "There in brief you have the damnatory frailty of 'realistic' novels, which endeavor to show our actual existence from a viewpoint wherefrom no human being ever saw it." p. 326 is dog-eared and marked in the margin near: "'Realism' is the art of being superficial seriously."
War commentaries	No marginalia.
Silence	No marginalia.
Selection of her letters	No marginalia.
The sea around us	No marginalia.
(Cai Valeri Catulli Veronen-sis Liber)	An article about Zukofsky by Hugh Kenner entitled "Louis Zukofsky: All the Words" has been tucked in the center of the book. Article was published in the New York Times Book Review, June 18, 1978.
The poems of ____	No marginalia.
Melville	p. 5 Sentence at beginning of 3rd paragraph "Melville's humor enlivens..." marked in margin with an X. p. 5 Second sentence in of 4th paragraph "Melville came to writing a novel..." marked in margin with an X. p. 9 Beginning of sentence "If PIERRE is a book that tries..." in 3rd full paragraph is underlined and marked with an X in the margin.
The lonely sea and the sky	No marginalia.
Painting as a pastime	No marginalia.
How Does a Poem Mean?	Notes on slips of paper inserted between pp. 764-765. On first slip: "How Does a Poem Mean? Ciardi - 'The act of producing a word involves breath and muscle, & various kinds of muscular activity tend to produce various kinds of feeling.' 'The bodily involvement in sounding the word is a distinct part of the word's personality.' 'Even words that arise from the sound of the thing worded has a muscular feel of its own. Farmers now calling Ho! Boss! Almost pure Greek. Centuries before Christ, the same cry over the hills of Greece - meaning literary 'The Cow! The Cow!' hippopotamus - Greek hyppo = horse, ptamus = river. [illegible] of goodbye = God be ir 'ye. Keats - It 'should surprise with a fine excess.'" On second slip: "Michael [at top of slip]. Ciardi - Line by line & passage by passage the poem comes to the poet from sources he feels strongly but does not pretend to understand. -------- Subject of a poem? What? I.A. Richards (a paraphrase of) 'One talks about the subject of a poem when he does not know what to do with the poemness of the poem.'"
Landscape Into Art	No marginalia.
Ruskin today	No marginalia.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's court	No marginalia.
Life on the Mississippi	Note on blanket sheet at back of book: "p.170"
Reason and nature	No marginalia.
Analects	No marginalia.
The conduct of life	"H.W. Hein" is written at top of first page of book. p. 7: "Analecta preceded" is written before start of text. p. 14: "...one instant..." is underlined in the sentence "The moral law is a law from whose operation we cannot for one instance in our existence escape." p. 16: "... central clue..." is underlined in quote from Confucius: "To find the central clue to our moral being which unites us to the universal order, that indeed is the highest human attainment." p. 19: "... moral reform..." is underlined in the sentence "In short, moral reform must precede all and every other reform." p. 25: A portion of this sentence from a quote of Confucius is underlined: "When men take up something away from the actuality of human life as moral law, that is not the moral law." p. 26: This sentence is underlined: "What you do not wish others should do unto you, do not do unto them." p. 27: Check mark in margin at beginning of this sentence: "Finding himself in uncivilized countries, he lives as becomes one living in uncivilized countries.' pp. 32-33: This sentence seems to be marked: "When a man understands how to put in order his personal conduct and character, he will understand how to govern men." p. 35: The line "... discretion in the employment of their subordinates..." is marked in the margin. p. 37: The paragraph that begins "In order to acquire truth..." is marked at the start. p. 38: The space above the start of Chapter XVII is marked with a bracket. p. 39: The paragraph that begins "For God in giving life to all created things..." is marked at the start. p. 42: The line reading "... above in pledging the company, in order to show..." is marked in the margin. p. 43: The line reading "... with us: this is the highest achievement of true..." is marked in the margin. p. 46: One line in the sentence "It is only he who possesses absolute truth in the world who can create" is marked in the margin. The sentence reading "When it is evil, it can also be known beforehand" is marked in the margin. p. 55: The last line of the sentence that reads "These moral laws form one system with the laws by which Heaven and Earth support and contain, overshadow and canopy all things" is marked in the margin. p. 57: "Except for himself" is underlined in the sentence: "Now, where does such a man derive his power and knowledge except from himself?" p. 59: This line from a quote from the Book of Songs is marked in the margin: "See you do nothing to blush for...."
Wisdom of the saints	No marginalia.
The mirror of the sea and a personal record	No marginalia.
Selections from Byron, Wordsworth, Shelley	On the first page: "Lorine Niedecker 9-8 Junior English '21." On title page: "Source Book 90, 91, 92" p. 21: First sentence of first paragraph on page is marked in margin. "Result of Byron's poems, Scott [illegible] novels" in bottom margin. p. 23: Rhyme scheme of "Sonnet on Chillon" is marked in margin. "Can't endure restraint - dissipated life" in top margin. "Opposite from Wordsworth" in bottom margin. p. 24: Line marked in margin, and has underlining: "A sunbeam which hath lost its way...." p. 25: "Repetition" in margin. p. 26: "Pathos" in margin. p. 27: For section V, this note in margin: "contrast 2nd suffer more." p. 28: "Alit" in top margin near: "A double dungeon wall and wave...." "Rep and alit" in side margin near "And then the very rock hath rocked/And I have felt it shake, unshocked...." p. 29: Faint marking in margin near line: "The range of the steep mountain's side...." p. 32: Much of section IX is bracketed, note in margins says "sounds like Poe?" Three lines are marked for "repet" and "alit." p. 34: Lines number 307 and 308 are numbered in pencil. p. 37: All of section XIV seems to be marked in margin. p. 38: In margins: "Pool'toog" and "Look up setting and men" and "Wed." "Charles III" next to "the royal Swede." "Votaries" underlined, with ? in margin. "Fate" written above first line of section II. p. 39: "Vassals" underlined, ? in margin. p. 40: In top margin: "Mazeppa = 70 years old." "Hetman" underlined, with "Read - Mon" in margin. p. 41: Mark in margin near line: "Though firm of heart and strong of hand...." p. 42: "20 years old" in margin next to line: "I think 'twas in my twentieth spring...." pp. 44-45: Section V is bracketed at the start. "Port" is underlined, "face" is written in margin. These lines are marked: "For Time, and Care, and War have ploughed/My very soul from out my brow...." p. 47: "Browning" in margin near lines: "Wherewith we while away the day;/It is - I have forgot the name...." p. 49: "100,000 soldiers" in top margin. "Bile" is underlined, question mark in margin. "Wroth" is underlined. "Cap-a-pie" is underlined, check mark in margin. p. 52: "Portcullis" is underlined. p. 54 "Gore is underlined in the line: "Meantime my cords were wet with gore," with a question mark in the margin. p. 57: Next to a line with "erred" in it, this in the margin: "urred." p. 58: Section XIV is bracketed at the beginning. p. 60: Two check marks in the margin behind the line: "His savage force at length o'erspent...." p. 64: Lines are bracketed beginning with "All that was beautiful and new" through "But as their nerves may be endured." "Hereafter condition of nerves not fear" written in the margin. Check mark in margin in front of this line: "To rule - to shine - to smite - to save...." p. 66: Page number is bracketed. p. 68: "Prince Uhraine [or Ithraine or Uhroine or Ithroine ??]" in top margin. "Moral - revenge app - & hardships action interest" in bottom margin. p. 71: This sentence in the Introduction to the work of William Wordsworth is bracketed: "The joy and excitement of such active play, of runninfg about the fields or woods by day and night, first woke and stirred the deep impulses of genius." p. 73: Page number is circled. "Sister Dorothy" and "Coleridge - Words" are written in margin. p. 76: Last paragraph on page is bracketed, with this note in bottom margin: "Contrast to Byron." pp. 79-80: Last eight lines of page and first wo of next page are bracketed, wherein Coleridge is quoted saying that Wordsworth's purpose was "... to give the charm of novelty to things of every day," etc. p. 82: Perhaps "lingua franca" is underlined. p. 83: "Queen Vict" in margin. p. 84: The titles "Written in Early Spring" and "The World Is Too Much With Us, Late and Soon" are checked marked in margin. p. 85: The lines "Her eyes as stars of twilight fair;/Like Twilight's, too, her dusky hair" are checkmarked. "A Spirit, yet a Woman too!" is underlined, "charateristic of W" is written in margin. The lines "A creature not too bright and good/For human nature's daily food" are bracketed. p. 86: In margin: "half way [between?] practical & ideal - poet sees practical in her." Between end of section I and start of section II: "Lucy." First lines in second stanza of section II are bracketed: "A violet by a mossy stone/Half-hidden from the eye!/ - Fair as a star, when only one...." "Solitude" is written in left margin, "metaphor" in the right margin. In bottom margin: "ode to England patriotic Page 174." p. 88: Page number is bracketed. "Eye" in margin next to second full stanza on the page, "ear" in margin next to the third full stanza. p. 89: "Axis part of earth" in margin next to second stanza of section V. p. 91: In margin: "What thots do you [in shorthand: have with regard to??] Lucy's poems?" p. 92: Near end of section VI: "person never dies - memory." Rhyme scheme for "To a Distant Friend" is marked. In bottom margin: "Different rhyme scheme in each sonate [sic]." p. 93: Rhyme scheme for "Desideria" is marked. "Conciseness" at end of the poem. p. 94: The line "From vain temptations dost set free" is check marked. p. 95: "To humbler functions" and "I myself commend" are underlined. "Mere man" is written in margin. p. 96: With "England and Switzerland, 1802": "one is of the Sea" is underlined, with "England in margin; "One of the Mountains" is underlined, with "Switzerland" in margin. In the line "Then cleave, O cleave to that which still is left" "Liberty is inserted between "cleave" and "O" and "[Eng.]" written at end of line. "Napoleonic War no doubt" is written in right margin. "Austrian subjugation of Switzerland" is written in left margin. "Sonnett" is written at end of poem. With the poem "On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic" "Venice" is written above "Venetian." "French Napoleanic" is written in right margin. p. 97: Above "London, 1802" is written "George III." In right margin: "Prevaling not in Eng life during 18th cent was material." "Isn, Agr. & Mefg." in margin next to lines: "To think that now our life is only drest/For show; mean handy-work of craftsman, cook" and these lines each have a check mark. "The wealthiest man among us is the best" is check marked, with "money" in the margin. "Took ~ strides" in margin next to last stanza on page. pp. 98-99: "London" written next to title "The Same." "Mean ?" written in left margin. "Sonnett" written in margin at end of poem. In left margin of next poem, "XIV," is "different - times goes on." In bottom margin: "Eng. [check mark] help other nations." Lines at top of p. 99 are bracketed, with question mark in margin: "For dearly must we prize thee; we who find/In thee a bulwark for the cause of men...." p. 100: The line "In liveried poverty" is check marked; "servants" is written in margin. p. 101: "think" is underlined in line: "It is no tale; but, should you think...." p. 103 "Spleen" is underlined, "spleen = disliking it" is written in margin. Lines are bracketed: "O Man! that from thy fair and shining youth/Age might but take the things Youth needed not!" Question mark in margin. "Strength & freshness gone" is written in margin. p. 104: "Uncertainty" written in top margin. "Seven years, alas! to have received/No tidings of an only child" are each check marked. "I sent him forth" is underlined in second full stanza on page. p. 105: These lines are bracketed: "I now can see with better eyes;/And worldly grandeur I despise/And fortune with her gifts and lies." p. 107: "privacy" is underlined in the line "A privacy of glorious light is thine" and "surely up there" is written in the margin. p. 108: "linnett" is written in margin next to first full stanza on page. p. 109: In bottom margin on page with start of the poem "To the Cuckoo" is written "It's a good thing he lived in younger days any way." p. 110: Between the end of "To the Cuckoo" and the beginning of "Upon Westminster Bridge" is written "Daffodils = memory." Rhyme scheme of the second of these poems is written out. The line "Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!" is bracketed. p. 111: The rhyme scheme of first stanza of "Composed at Neidpath Castle" is written out. The lines "To level with the dust a noble horde,/A brotherhood of venerable trees" are bracketed. The sentence "Many hearts deplored/The fate of those old trees..." is backeted. pp. 112-113: "14" is written in margin next to "Twice seven...." Numbering for lines 663, 664, 672, 683, and 684 are written out. The line "This little bay, a quiet road" is bracketed. These phrases are underlined: "Vision as thou art," "Benignity," and "a random seed,/Remote from men." pp. 114-115: "Just saw her" is written in left margin. Number for line 719 is written out, lines there are bracketed: "Joy have I had; and going hence I bear away my recompense." "Our Memory" is underlined. Last five lines of the poem are bracketed, "Spirit" is underlined, "Memory" is written in margin next to them. In the next poem, "The Reaper," "solitary Highland Lass!" and "by herself" are underlined. p. 116: The first four lines at top of page from "The Reaper" have check marks, "plaintive" is underlined. Last two lines of poem are bracketed: "The music in my heart I bore/Long after it was heard no more." "Wood Street" is bracketed in "The Reverie of Poor Susan." "City girl working - came from country" is written in margin. p. 117: The line "And a single small cottage, a nest like a dove's" is underlined. "I wander'd lonely" in first line of "The Daffodils" is underlined. "Happiness" is written in margin next to second stanza; "Tossing their heads in sprightly dance" is check marked. The lines "A Poet could not but be gay/In such a jocund company!" is bracketed. p. 118: Last stanza of "The Daffodils" is bracketed, "of solitude" is underlined, "memory" is written in the margin. In "To the Daisy" "... unassuming Common-place/Of nature, with that homely face..." is underlined, as is "play with similes." The last four lines on the page are bracketed: "And many a fond and idle name/I give to thee, for praise or blame/As is the humour of the game,/While I am gazing." p. 119: "similes" is written in the top margin, and numbers 1-7 written in margin to correspond, one assumes, to the count of similes. "Names" in margin next to "Thy appellations." "Reveries are past" is underlined. p. 120: "... repair/My heart with gladness, and a share/Of thy meek nature!" is underlined. "Braes" is underlined in "Yarrow Unvisited." p. 121: "holms" is underlined, "lowlands" is written in margin. "Float double, sawn and shadow!" is underlined. pp. 122-123: "Yarrow ? Scotland" is written before start of "Yarrow Visited." "For not a feature of those hills/Is in the mirror slighted" is bracketed. p. 124: These lines are bracketed: "But thou that didst appear so fair/To fond imagination/Dost rival in the light of day/Her delicate creation...." "A softness still and holy" and "pastoral melancholy" are underlined. p. 125: "Inward eye" is written in margin next to "I see - but not by sight alone." p. 126: "Memory" is written in margin next to last four lines of "Yarrow Visited." "Trying to go to sleep" is written in margin next to first four lines of "To Sleep." p. 127: "And could not win thee" is underlined. "Tribute" is written in margin next to last stanza of "To Sleep." The last two lines of "The Inner Vision" are bracketed: "The Mind's internhal heaven shall shed her dews/Of inspiration on the humblest lay." p. 128: These lines from the poem "Written in Early Spring" are bracketed: "And much it grieved my heart to thinki/What Man has made of Man." "Nature" and "idealistic" are written in margin near the third and fourth stanzas. The lines "Have I not reason to lament/What Man has made of Man?" are bracketed. " "Material W,. [or Et] = antithesis" is written in bottom margin. p. 131: These lines are bracketed: "He told of the magnolia, spread/High as a cloud, high over head!" These lines are bracketed: "Cover a hundred leagues, and seem/To set the hills on fire" and "like that" is written in the margin. p. 135: "Regrets" in margin before start of first full paragraph on page. "Resolves" in margin near line "No more of this - for now, by thee...." p. 140: The third through eighth lines on the page are bracketed, "Death of Brotherhood in shipwreck" is written in the margin. p. 141: "Not without hope we suffer and we mourn" is bracketed, "Hope anyway" is written in the margin. "Ossian" in the poem "Glen-Almain, the Narrow Gate" is underlined, with arrow to "Celtic poet - Celtic = Scotch Oshan [with short vowel mark and accent mark over the O]." These lines are bracketed: But this calm; there cannot be/A more entire tranquility." p. 142: "Materialism" is written in margin alongside the poem "The World is too much with us, late and soon." "The winds that will be howling at all hours/And are up-gather'd now likie sleeping flowers" are backeted, "often quoted" is written in margin. "Creed outworn" is underlined. "Beautiful [does she mean Beauty?]& happiness are in nature - simplicity." p. 143: Before "Within King's College Chapel, Cambridge" is written "omit." p. 145: "Comparison to nature again" is written in margin next to stanza that reads: "No fountain from its rocky cave/E'er tripp'd with foot so free;/She seem'd as happy as a wave/That dances on the sea." p. 146: "Memory again" is written in top margin. p. 147: This stanza is bracketed: "The blackbird amid leafy trees,/The lark above the hill,/Let loose their carols when they please,/Are quiet when they will." p. 148: "We have been glad of yore" is marked in margin, "memories" is written in margin. p. 149: "bewilder'd chimes" is underlined. "Omit" is written next to title "The Trosachs." pp. 150-157: "The Child is father of the Man" is bracketed. "Memories" is written in the margin. In the next poem, "Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood," these two lines are bracketed: "To me did seem/Apparell'd in celestial light." The lines "Oh evil day! If I were sullen/While Earth herself is adorning" are bracketed. "Setting" in top margin of p. 152, several lines are bracketed, and these words are written in the side margins: "Existence/birth," "true," "Philosophy," Lowell," "custom," and "convention." On p. 153 check mark next to: "At length the Man perceives it die away,/And fade into the light of common day." "Lowell" in margin next to line "Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own." On p. 154: "little child" is written in margin nesxt to "Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie/Thy soul's immensity...." "Eternal mind" is underlined, with "not end or death" written in margin. "On whom those truths do rest/Which we are toiling all our lives to find" is bracketed. "Custom" is written in margin next to these bracketed lines: "Full soon thy soul shall have her earthly freight,/And custom lie upon thee with a weight/Heavy as frost and deep almost as life!" p. 155: "With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast" is underlined. Lines 1754-1756 are bracketed, "memory" is written in the margin. p. 156: "Immortalilty is [ bent dash] master" is written in top margin. "So often quoted" in margin next to lines "Ye that pipe and ye that play,/Ye that through your hearts to-day/Feel the gladness of the May!" "Memory" in left margin, "with nature" in right margin next to "In the primal sympathy," "hereafter in right margin near "In the faith that looks through death." p. 157: "47 years old" in right margin near lines 1800-1805. The lines "To me the meanest flower that blows can give/Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" are bracketed. In bottom margin: "'The Cloud' by Shelley. 'We are seven' by Wordsworth. In Lake Geneva on boundary [between] France and Switzerland. Comment on poem 'We are Seven'." p. 159: In introduction to Shelley: "1822 [less] 1792 [equals] 30." "Unworldly and so ethereal" are underlined with check mark in margin. "Tempest" next to "Ariel." p. 160: Short vowel sound over "a" with accent mark on the "flam" syllable in "inflammable." Check mark in margin next to: "for his whole life was a protest against all established customs which had any trace of oppression or tyranny." p. 161 "Zastrozzi" is underlined, "tzi" is written in margin. p. 162: "somewhat [shorthand sign - like?] Byron" in top margin. Check mark near sentence about Shelley firing pistols everywhere, "so recklessly as to be a danger to others and to himself." Caret near "He read, says Hogg sixteen hours out of the twenty-four...." Title of pamphlet "The Necessity of Atheism" is underlined. "Fag is one who serves another = a drudge" is written in bottom margin. p. 163: "For all compromise he had an inborn, fiery hatred" is bracketed, with check in margin. Check mark in margin near "Shelley now determined to marry. Harriet Westbrook...." Check margin near "And when, a fortnight after separating from his wife, he departed for the Continent with Mary Godwin, he became, like Byron, a sort of English monster." In bottom margin: "Byron more active." p. 164: "not narrative poetry" is written in top margin. Check mark near "The list of his important works is very short." Check mark near "the Cornish rover and free-lance, Captain Trelawny." Bracket in margin for eight lines relating what Trelawny "has told us how Shelley passed his days." p. 165: Check mark and "like that" in margin near: "it might have been taken for a sketch of a marsh overgrownh with bulrushes, and the blots for wild ducks." pp. 166-167: Marks in margin near these passages: "Alleggra, Byron's dead child, rose laughin from the sea to beckon him." "Shelley's body was found on the san near Via Reggio. In one pocket was 'the volume of Sophocles... and Keats' poems in the other, doubled back, as if the reader, in the act of reading, had hastily thrust it away.'" "Only the poet's ashes could be taken to Rome for burial." "Byron and Leigh Hunt arrived by carriage." And then most of the first paragraph on page 167 is marked in the margin. Check mark next to second last line on page 167. p. 168: Short vowel mark over "y" in Bysshe, with "two s's" in top margin. p. 169: Check mark next to: "A solitary man, and none other, must have written such lines as -" then the eight lines quoted are bracketed, with a check mark next to the first of them: "Alas! I have nor hope nor health...." pp. 170-171: Three big check marks next to last paragraph on page, which explains that for Shelley "beauty lay at the end of a quest, in some region as far off as the No Man's Land...." Check mark on page 171 near explanation that Shelley "brings before your inward eye fewer actual scenes of natural beauty than his companion poets." "... nearly disembodied and dissolved in light and space" and "Light and spacfe, indeed, are Shelley's own domain" are bracketed, with the second of these also underlined. Check mark in margin and bracketing for sentence: "Shelley is not a narrative poet, for the reason that no story could find a foothold in his airy medium." p. 172: Check mark near "the source of his [Shelley's] most beautiful and magical effects." These sentences are bracketed: "Where has aspiration been given greater depth and distance than in his line 'The desire of the moth for the star'? And as for the description of sights in Nature, no poet has left more lasting pictures of lights [underlined], calm or stormy, seen in the heavens, in pools, or upon the sea." p. 173: These sentences and quoted from a poem are bracketed: "He changes all objects into something rich and strange, not of the sea, but of the sky; and so radiant is the sky, in his best and highest moments, that like his lark he becomes - '... a poet hidden/In the light of thought.'" p. 174: The titles of these poems are checked marked: "The Indian Serenade," "To the Night," "The Flight of Love," "Stanzas Written in Dejection Near Naples," "To a Skylark," "The Recollection," and "Music, When Soft Voices Die." pp. 175-176: Check mark near title of "The Indian Serenade." "They" in first line of second stanza is bracketed. "Champak" is underlined, "specie of magnolia tree" is written in margin. "It" in sixth line of second stanza is bracketed. "Superior to other two in vverse-rhyme" written in bottom margin. Bracket mark at end of poem. p. 177: Check mark near title "To the Night. "Indefinite" written in margin near first line: "Swiftly walk over the western wave...." The wored "opiate" is underlined. pp. 178-179: "Likened night to death" is written in margin. Check mark near the title "The Flight of Love. These lines are bracketed "When the lute is broken,/Sweet tones are remember'd not" and "Wordsworth said - not [short hand notation ?]" Note in bottom margin across both pages: "These poems help to analyze the man ----------- that is all, his philosophy is not minel Epicurines?" A question mark next to "One word is too often profaned" at start or next poem, "thee" is underlined with question mark next to it in fourth line. p. 180: Check mark next to: "I can give not what men call love...." These lines are bracketed: "The desire of the moth for the star,/Of the night for the morrow,/The devotion to something afar/From the sphere of our sorrow?" "He always died [two short hand notations] far off" is written in left margin. Next to the first stanza of "Stanzas Written In Dejection Near Naples" is written "beautiful." Next to second stanza is written: "No solitude for him." p. 181: These lines are bracketed: "Till death like sleep might steal on me,/And I might feel in the warm air/My cheek grow cold, and hear the sea/Breathe o'er my dying brain its last monotony." Check mark near title: "To a Skylark." "Cuckoo of [illegible]" written in right margin. p. 182: "unpremeditated art" is underlined, "high up far off" is written in margin. "Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun" is underlined, "spirit" is written in margin. p. 183: A line is drawn to connect the lines "What thou art we know not;/What is most like thee?" to the lines "Like a poet hidden/In the light of thought." Check mark and "words" next to the lines "Like a glow-worm golden/In a dell of dew." p. 185: These lines are bracketed: "We look before and after,/And pine for what is not." p. 189: Check mark near the title "The Invitation." p. 191: Check mark near the title "The Recollection." Mark in margin near: "Rise, Memory, and write its praise!" p. 194: A line is drawn to separate the final eight lines from the poem preceding them. The last two lines are bracketed: "Less oft is peace in Shelley's mind/Than calm in waters seen!" p. 196: These lines are bracketed: I hasten'd to the spot whence I had come/That I might there present it - O! to whom?" p. 205: Check mark near the lines: "Oh! lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!/I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!" pp. 207-208: Check mark near the title: "Threnos" or the first line: "O World! O Life! O Time!" Check mark near the start of poem XX, with first two lines bracketed: "Music, when soft voices die,/Vibrates in the memory...." Check mark and "Like this - love it" next to these lines: "And so thy thoughts, when Thou art gone,/Love itself shall slumber on." p. 209: "Died at 25" in top margin of first page of introduction to John Keats. p. 210: In margin near a description of Keats's school days: "athletic." p. 212: Check mark in margin near: "In that same fortunate spring, Keats chose his career, and gave the world his first volume of poems." p. 213: Long vowel mark over "y" of "ydon" to help with pronunciation of Haydon? In bottom margin: "Lay - Hunt." p. 216: "Mary" in ink next to "Bright star, would I were as steadfast as thou art." Mark in margin near "'Bring me the candle, Brown, and let me see this blood.'" p. 218: Bracketed: "...some, too zealous [underlined] in his praise have called Keats a poet of Greek life, and his spirit the Greek spirit." There is also a capital D in the margin, apparently unrelated to anything but near a quoted passage starting "Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?" p. 219: Check mark near the passage reading "the moon in this poet's sky is not the pale weary satellite that Shelley watched...." This sentence is bracketed: "'Poetry,' he once wrote, 'must surprise by a fine excess.'" p. 220: This sentence is bracketed: "Behind the life which is in all these things, Keats rarely, if ever, suggests thye presence - so real and so full of awe to Wordsworth - of a mighty impulse and everlasting purpose." p. 222: This sentence is bracketed: "When later you come to know the whole range of Keat's poetry, you will see in the odes a growing melancholy, a sense, unknown in his earlier delighted freedom, that beauty is transient, that all living forms of beauty pass into oblivion." p. 223: This prose quotation from Keats is bracketed: "If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - nothing to make my friends proud of my memory; but I have loved theprinciple of beauty in all things, and if I had had time, I would have made myself remembered." This quotation from Keats' poetry is bracketed "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" and "Creed" is written in the margin. p. 224: The title of these poems are marked: "Ode on the Poets," "On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer," "Ode to a Nightingale," "To One Who Has Been Long in the City Pen," "The Realm of Fancy," "Ode to a Grecian Urn," and "The Human Seasons." p. 225: "Elysium = pagan conception of heaven" is written in top margin. "Tented" is underlined in the line "Underneath large blue-bells tented." "Perfume" is underlined, "pronunciation" is written near it in the margin. p. 226: These lines are bracketed: "Thus ye live on high, and then/On the earth ye live again." "Cloying" is underlined, with question mark in the margin. "Repetition of first 4 lines" is written near last four lines of "Ode on the Poets." p. 231: Check mark near the title of "The Terror of Death." Rhyme scheme of poem is written out in ink. p. 232: Check mark near the title of "Ode To a Nightingale," with "Tribute" in margin also. In right hand margin: "Lethe = river of forgetfulness." In bottom margin: "short poem that might be set to music." "Lethe-wards" is underlined, and "river leading to Hades" is written in bottom margin, too. p. 233: "Dryad" is underlined, "nymph" is written in margin. These words are underlined: "Flora," "Provencal," and "Hyppocrene." These lines are bracketed: "That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,/And with thee fade away into the forest dim." "Nightingale" is written in the space of the stanza break. "Death of brother" is written in the right margin. "Bachus = God of wine" is written in the bottom margin. p. 234: The line "I cannot see what flowers are at my feet" is bracketed and "night" is written in margin. "Departed music" is written in bottom margin, pointed at the line "To thy high requiem become a sod." p. 235: These lines are marked in the margin: "Thou was not born for death, immortal Bird!/No hungry generations tread thee down;/The voice I hear this passing night was heard/IKn ancient days by emperor and clown." p. 236: Check mark near title "Ode to Autumn." p. 237: Check mark near title "The Realm of Fancy." "Imagination" in margin nearby. p. 240: These lines are bracketed: "Too much gazed at? Where's the maid/Whose lip mature is ever new?" Written in margin: "Everything spoilt by use." These lines are bracketede: "Let the winged Fancy roam,/Pleasure never is at home." p. 241: Check mark near the title of "Ode on a Grecian Urn." These lines are bracketed and marked in the margin, with "imagine" in the stanza break above: "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter; therefore, yet soft pipes, play on;/Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd,/Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone." p. 242: In top margin: "Beauty is transient / thought people on urn would live forever." These lines are bracketed: "'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." In bottom margin: "learn" and "attic = urn." p. 243: "Imagine" is written next to first stanza of "The Human Seasons." "Think of youth" is written next to the second. Check mark near this passage: "to let fair things/Passed by unheeded as a threshold brook." p. 245: "Monday" in top margin. p. 247: In top margin: "good exp / plajerism [sic] = taking other person's words." This phrase is underlined: "spectacle of that distant, pulsing mystery." In bottom margin and not clearly related to anything: "how pronounced." p. 251: "Thought is so involved -" is written in bottom margin, after discussion of Browning's poems is opened and the Tennyson quote about understanding only the first and last lines of 'Sordello' is cited. p. 252: This entire paragraph is bracketed, and three passages of it are underlined: "This fact is, that Browning wrote the greater part of his verses, whether songs or stories, in a fashion wholly different from the fashion of his companion poets. The difference you will quickly see: except in comparatively rare instances, he does not speak to you directly out of his own heart, like Wordsworth, or Byron, or Shelley, or Keats, but indirectly out of the heart and from the lips of some real or imagined character. Browning is, in other words, a dramatic poet." p. 256: "lyrical dramatist" is underlined. p. 257: "The wisdom of Browning is not the wisdom of this world" is underlined. This quote from Ecclesiastes is bracketed: "The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him thataruleth among fools." p. 258: This sentence is underlined: "To him, glory and honour lie with the man who has done good work, and with that man only." p. 259: The titles of these poems are marked: "Cavalier Tunes" and "Pheidippides." p. 260: "Dramatic monolgue differs from a soliloquy in this: mono = one. While there is 1 speaker the presence of a silent second person is supposed, to whom the arguments of the speaker are addressed. Late day appreciation originated dramatic monologue. Soliloquy = 1 person alone on stage." p. 261: In top margin: "quick movement of poems. Always optimistic, sure of hereafter." In lines of "Marching Along" that have words in middle of line rhyming with words at end, both are underlined. "Pym" has "member of house of Commons" in margin near it. p. 262: "member of Commons" in top margin near "Hampden." In margin "Prince - nephew of C [Charles] I" referring to Rupert. In secftion IV, "[short-hand symbol] King Charles" is pointed at Pym. "Rude fellows" is pointed at "carles." "Internal" is written in left margin, referring perhaps to the internal rhymes? p. 264: In top margin: "Roundheads = purit [??] anon [??] commoner." "Faith" in margin near "fay." In first line of "Incident of the French Camp," "stormed Ratisbon" is underlined. p. 265: In margin next to section IV of "Incident of the French Camp" is written: "boy put flag in city." p. 267: The last four lines of the second section of "The Lost Leader" are bracketed. p. 268: In the poem "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix," the "o" in the word "postern" appears to have a long vowel sound over it; then in the margin next to section III is written: "place to place." p. 277: Faint marks in margin near four lines on this page. p. 278: "Get sense" in left margin next to final stanza of "The Boy and the Angel:" "One vanished as the other died:/They sought God side by side." "Write Herve Riel" is in the right margin. p. 287: Check mark near the title of "Herve Riel." "Northern coast of France" is pointed at "Hogue." "St. Malo" is underlined, "Rance" is underlined with question marked nearby. "Damfreville" is underlined with "[three short-hand symbols ??] ship or man" in margin. p. 288: "Right ?" in margin, pointed at "starboard; "port" underlined, with "left" written above it. "Twenty tons" is underlined. p. 289: At end of section IV of "Herve Riel" this is written in the margin: "coasting pilot? offing?" p. 290: "distance off shore" and "deep H-2-0" are pointed at "offing." p. 292: These lines are bracketed: "In the frank blue Breton eyes,/Just the same man as before." p. 294: "Louvre" is underlined. Last two lines of "Herve Riel" are backeted: "In my verse, Herve Riel, do thou once more/Save the squadron, honour France, love they wife the Belle Aurore!" Check mark near the title of "Pheidippides." "Zeus" and "Her" are underlined, "aegis" is circled. "Pan" is underlined with [short-hand symbols ??] - Zeus" pointed at it. p. 295: "Archons" is underlined, with "magistrates" pointed at it. "Tettix" is circled. "130 mile run" is written in stanza break. "Eretria" is underlined. "Hellas" is underlined, "Greece" in margin nearby. p. 296: "Phoibos" is underlined, with "sun" written above it and "Phebus" with long vowel sound above the "e" written beneath it. "Artemis" is underlined, with "light" written above it. p. 297: "Parnes" is underlined. p. 298: "Erebos" is underlined, "way to Hades" near it in margin. "Pastures and forests" is written near "Pan." In margin: "Pan = half goat." p. 299: In top margin: "Pan was in ranks." Illegible word written above greaved-thighed." "Herb" in margin pointed at "Fennel." In bottom margin: "Phidippedis [sic] = Athenian runner." p. 300 "Athenian [short-hand symbol?]" pointed at "Miltiades." Question mark in margin pointed at "pelf." p. 302: Check mark near the title of "My Last Duchess." p. 303: "familiar family [short-hand symbol?]" pointed at "a nine-hundred-year-old name." In bottom margin: "Monologue - 1 person speaking." p. 308: In bottom margin: "Van Dyke & Kipling." In top corner of a page listing "Gateway Series of English Texts" is written "Money." On inside back cover: "Living - Van Dyke, Kipling, Robt. Bridges, Robt. Service, Edgar Guest. Dead - Riley, Whitman, Eugene Field, E.W. Wilcox, Rubaiyet of Omar Khayam." Separated from the aby a line across the page: "Nothing but rivalry speeds me on."
What to listen for in music	Inserted between pp. 24-25, a small clipping about volcanoes on Mars erupting about as frequently as those on earth - from Popular Mechanics
All in all	No marginalia.
Plight, a book of poems	No marginalia.
The Manchester affair	No marginalia.
Gasoline	No marginalia.
Lost Worlds	No marginalia.
Greek art	No marginalia.
The whip	No marginalia.
Century readings for a course in English Literature	There are extensive notations, hundreds of them, throughout this book and they give indication to LN's upbringing in literature. See especially Wordsworth's "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" and his poems. Specifics may be entered at some future date, as time permits.
Do these bones live	Fourteen pages (seven sheets) with Dahlberg's "Cipango's Hinder Door" have been cut out of New Directions 15 and tucked between pp. 22-23.
Epitaphs of our times: letters	p. 173: Faint mark in margin next to this passage from a letter to Josephine Herbst: "I have had the feeling that no matter how many books a man writes in the United States he is always the author of one volume, that is the last one he wrote. The others are automatically expunged, because nobody bothers to think about them...."
The sorrows of Priapus	No marginalia.
Truth is more sacred	On last page of book: "p. 105" Page 105 contains quiotes from D.H. Lawrence related to sea and water.
A history of science	No marginalia.
The divine comedy	Notation on half title page: "From Zukofskys Easter 1951." On blank last page: "Sordello p. 228. beautiful reading -mp. 446 Canto VIII Paradisio. Love - XVIII, Purgatorio."
Do you have a poem book on e.e. cummings?	No marginalia.
Flowers and leaves	No marginalia.
Opera	No marginalia.
New poetry out of Wisconsin	Notation on first blank page of copy 1: "To Mr. Roub from me." No marginalia in copy 2.
The journals of Lewis and Clark	No marginalia.
Love poems	No marginalia.
Selected poems and letters of ____	No marginalia.
Selected poems of	This notation on Contents page: "No. 15 of blaze and bronze."
The recognition of ____	No marginalia.
Rameau's nephew and D'Alembert's dream	No marginalia.
The human situation	Inserted before p. 155: a child's crayon drawing of a flower.
Green universe	No marginalia.
Complete poetry of each	No marginalia.
Gunslinger, book 1	No marginalia.
The secret life of the flowers	No marginalia.
The natural history of a yard	No marginalia.
'Letters'	No marginalia.
The story of philosophy	Book is signed by Will Durant on the first page. p. 288: This sentence is marked in the margin: "He applied philosophy even to holding up his stockings - by bands passing up into his trousers' pockets, where they ended in springs contained in small boxes." p. 289: In the phrase "the distorting channels of sense" the word sense is underlined. The sentence following is marked in the margin: "For 'pure' reason is to mean knowledge that does not come through our senses, but is independent of all sense experience; knowledge belonging to us by the inherent nature and structure of the mind." p. 290: The following sentence is marked in the margin, with an exclamation point along side: "But what if we have knowledge whose truth is certain to us even before experience - a priori?" p. 293: Portion of a sentence marked in the margin: "only those sensations are selected that can be moulded into perceptions suited to your present purpose, or that bring those imperious messages of danger which are always relevant." p. 300: This sentence is marked in the margin: "The moral imperative which we need as the basis of religion must be an absolute, a categorical imperative." p. 302: The start of the paragraph beginning "Notice, meanwhile, that this absolute command..." is marked in the margin. p. 313: Portion of a sentence appears to be marked in the margin with an "X:" "... and that the mind is no mere helpless tabula rasa, the inactive victim of sensation, but a positive agent, selecting and reconstructing experience as experience arrives." p. 341: A portion of the following sentence from a quote by Schopenhauer is marked in the margin: "As the human body generally corresponds to the human will generally, so the individual body generally corresponds to the individually modified will, the character of the individual." p. 350: A portion of the sentence quoted from Schopenhauer that begins "Everyone believes himself a priori to be perfectly free, even in his individual actions..." is marked in the margin. A portion of a sentence from the same quote, ending "... he must carry out the very character which he himself condemns, and as it were, play the part which he has undertaken, to the very end" is also marked in the margin. p. 382: A portion of the sentence including "... later, the same subject reach the metaphysical stage, and was explained by metaphysical abstractions - as when the stars moved in circles because circles were the most perfect figure..." is marked in the margin. p. 385: A great portion of the sentence reading "As mathematics had dominated philosophy in the seventeenth century, giving to the world Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, and Pascal; and as psychology had written philosophy in Berkeley and Hume and Condillac and Kant; so in the nineteenth century, in Schilling and Schopenhauer, in Spencer and Neitzsche and Bergson, biology was the background of philosophic thought." is marked in the margin. p. 398: A portion of the sentence that begins "The growth of planets out of nebulae; the formation of oceans and mountains on the earth; the metabolism of elements by plants, and of animal tissues by men; the development of the heart in the embryo, and the fusion of bones after birth..." is marked in the margin. p. 419: A portion of the sentence beginning "The professed ethic of Europe and America is a pacifistic Christianity..." may be marked in the margin.
Key to modern poetry	No marginalia.
Lawrence Durrell - Henry Miller, a private	p. 398: In blank space at end of index: "Balzav 144 Seraphita."
Men of power, volume 2	On first page: "Xmas 1938 To The Heins from Margaret Goetsch
Another time in fragments	A poem by Larry Eigner beginning "in all the smog" has been torn out of a magazine (p. 31) and tucked between the poems numbered 16 and 17.
The firmament of time	No marginalia.
The immense journey	No marginalia.
The unexpected universe	Tucked between pp. 132-133 is a newspaper feature about La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, from the Milwaukee Journal, date unknown.
Four quartets	No marginalia.
The dance of life	"Lorine Niedecker '24" written at top of first page of book. Written in pencil on last page of book: "Bertrand Russell - 1. 'Principles of Social Reconstruction.' 2. 'Studies in the Psychology of Sex' - Elis. 3. Principles of Sociology - Barnes-Haynes categorical imperative" Written in pencil on inside of back cover: "110, 111, 109, 103, 89, 85, 84, 70, 134, 135, 140, 155, 163, 169, 320, 325, 342, 348 [underlined in ink, 'versus Senor' written behind it in ink], 190 Explanation [??] of derangement from rule - old as Aristotle." p. v: Line reading "Rodin that 'slowness is beauty,' and certainly it is..." is marked in margin. p. vi: One line of sentence reading "We cannot remain consistent with the world save by growing inconsistent with our own past selves" is marked in the margin. p. vii: Marks in margin near the sentence "I have never seen the same world twice." p. viii: Portions of these sentences have been marked in the margin: "The diversity of the Many is balanced by the stability of the One. That is why life must always be a dance, for that is what a dance is: perpetual slightly varied movements which are yet always held true to the shape of the whole." p. xiii: Something seems to have been erased near the final three lines on the page. p. 18: A portion of this sentence has been marked in the margin: "It was felt to be the conquered rather than the conqueror who needed consolation, and it also seemed desirable to show that no feeling of animosity was left behind." p. 30: A portion of this sentence has been marked in the margin: "That is why it is only to-day that we in the West have reached the point of nervous susceptibility which enables us in some degreee to comprehend the aesthetic supremacy which the Chinese reached more than a thousand years ago." p. 36: Something appears to have been erased next to the footnote at the bottom of the page. p. 70: Two lines including the phrase "Science consists in knowing, Art consists in doing" have been marked in the margin. p. 84: A mark appears to have been erased from the margin near the 5th-7th lines on the page. p. 103: The following sentences have been marked in the margin: "Freud regards dreaming as fiction that helps us to sleep; thinking we may regard as fiction that helps us to live. Man lives by imagination." p. 109: The following sentence portion is marked in the margin: "Ferrero, who occupied himself with psychology before attaining eminence as a brilliant historian, suggested thirty years ago that the art impulse and its allied manifestations are transformed sexual instinct; and the sexual impulse is 'the raw material, so to speak, from which art springs...." p. 110: The end portion of this quote have been marked in the margin: "... the external features of the male and his external activities ... have been developed out of the impluse of repressed organic sexual desire striving to manifest itself ever more urgently in the struggle to overcome the coyness of the female...." p. 111: Two lines of this portion of a sentence have been marked in the margin: "... though I was careful to add that the transmutation of sexual energy into other forms of force must not be regarded in itself as completely accounting for all the finest human aptitudes of sympathy and art and religion." p. 134: Portions of these sentences about Einstein are marked in the margin: "... while those who know him well say that he is 'essentially as much an artist as a discoverer.' As a matter of fact he is an artist in one of the most commonly recognized arts, being an accomplished musician, a good violinist...." p. 125: Portions of this sentence about music have been underlined and/or marked in the margin: ""It is the most abstract, the most nearly mathematical of the arts - we may recall how music and mathematics had their scientific origin together in the discover of Pythagoras - and it is not surprising that it should be Einstein's favorite art." p. 137: One line of this sentence appears to have been marked in the margin: "He is disposed to regard many scientific discoveries commonly regarded the work of pure thought as really works of art." p. 140: Three lines containing "... 'possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture..." have been marked in the margin. p. 144: There appears to have been an erasure near the last four lines of the paragraph completing on this page. p. 146: There is a erasure plus a mark remains near the sentence "An absolute prohibition in this matter [split infinitives] is the mark of those who are too ignorant, or else too unintelligent, to recognise a usage which is of the essence of English speech." p. 149: The line "... modern French to call cliches. We mean thereby the..." is marked with an "X" in the margin. p. 155: Three lines containing the following sentence are marked in the margin: "It [style in writing] is also defined - and, sometimes I think, supremely well defined - as 'grace seasoned with salt.'" p. 163: There appears to have been an erasure near the final five lines on the page. p. 167: There appears to have been an erasure near four lines containing "... where he [Keats] seemed to be concerned with beautiful things, he was really concerned with beautiful words." p. 168: There appears to have been an erasure near three lines containing "But the attitude of the poet in the presence of Nature is precisely that of Huysmans in the presence of art: it is the programme that interests him." p. 169: The sentence "We see that the artist in speech moves among words rather than among things" is marked in the margin. p. 170: There seems to be an erasure marking six lines that start with "... strong love of Nature. The poets who describe Nature...." p. 190: There is an erasure near this sentence: "It is by the instinctive stress of a highly sensitive, or slightly abnormal constitution, that he is impelled to instil these tendencies into the alien magic of words." p. 245: Two lines are marked, including the words "... and the word morals essentially means custom." p. 248: There seems to be an erasure near seven lines starting with "So influential a moralist as Aristotle...." p. 254: There appears to be an erasure in the margin, underlining of the word "categorical" appears to have been erased, underlining of the word "imperative" remains. p. 270: Four lines are marked in the margin, including "The artist's work in life is full of struggle and toil; it is only the spectator of morals who can assume the calm aesthetic attitude." p. 275: Erasure near the phrase "... and even shortly before his death wrote in deprecation of the notion that conformity to duty is the final aim of morality." p. 276: Erasure near the word "dilettante" which remains underlined. p. 277: Large erasure in the margin of this page. p. 278: This sentence appears to be marked in the margin: "To exalt pleasure is to exalt pain; and we cannot understand the meaning of pain unless we understand the place of pleasure in the art of life." p. 280: Large erasure in this margin of this page. "Zarathustra" remains underlined. p. 281: Spinoza is underlined. Question mark in margin near statement by Jules de Gaultier to the effect that "Morality is a fact of sensibility...." p. 299: The word "eugenics" is underlined. p. 304: The line beginnng "spake Zarathustra..." may be marked. The book Studies in the Psychology of Sex appears to be marked in the footnote at bottom of the page, where he recalls suggesting "that we now have to lay the foundation of a new casuistry, no longer theological and Christian, but naturalistic and scientific." p. 306: The line with "Principles of Social Reconstruction" at top of page is marked. p. 312: Is there the hint of an erasure near the sentences "... each has mistaken the one drop of water he has measured for the whole ocean. Art cannot be defined because it is infinite." p. 320: The sentence "That is 'intuition,' an instinct that has become disinterested" appears to be marked. p. 322: Lines including "... an art must not be consciously pursued for any primary useful end outside itself" are marked in the margin. p. 325: The last five lines on the page are marked, with two of them marked again. pp. 340-341 These sentences may or may not be marked intentionally with dots in margin: "We must seek in the human ego an instinct in which is manifested a truly autonomous play of the power of imagination..." and "The aesthetic instinct alone answers to that double demand." p. 342: Four lines including the following have been marked in the margin: "Like Gaultier, he believes in what has been called, perhaps not happily, 'the law of irony'; that is to say, that the mark we hit is never the mark we aimed at...." p. 348: "Ah yes" is written in pencil next to "because they, too, illustrate that faith transcending sight, without which no art is possible." In addition, written in ink beneath the "Ah yes" is "versus Senor!" Written in ink in top outside corner of page: "3 reasons for seclusion: 1. cultivate a detached manner; 2. to watch the world; 3. to instill a faith and a feeling of aloneness" with arrow pointing to phrase "without which no art is possible."
A modern anthology	Not reviewed?
Basic selections from essays, poems &	pp. 103-119: Underlining has been made throughout the essay "The American Scholar," often several times on a page. p. 125: In "Works and Days," the entire paragraph bedginning "The days are made on a loom whereof..." has been bracketed in the margin. p. 201: The entire paragraph beginning "It is not a convenience to have a person in town..." is bracketed in the margin. Notation on the inside back cover: "p. 125, 201."
Basic writings of America's saga	Paper clip on page 165-166. Near "An Addrerss" delivered before a senior class in divinity college, this note: "4 months after leaving ministry." In first sentence of address the word "refulgent" is underlined. p. 166: Underlined: the sentence beginning "The sentiment of virtue is...." Nearby: "religion." In margin: "[illlegible] relationhip to inanimate [illegible]." p. 167: "vitiate" underlined. "Corrupt, weaken" written between lines. pp. 168-169: In margin at top of page: "Reason is highest faculty of soul - power [illegible] we apprehend truth immediately without calculation & proof." "Understanding - everyday truth - intellectual [illegible] varying degrees when reason - deepest truths - is perfect - [illegible]." "Depressing" written next to "privative" at top of page. "god [illegible]" next to word "deifying" in second complete paragraph on page. "Blessing" next to the word "beatitude." The word "Reason" is underlined. "Correctness" in margin next to "rectitude." p. 170: "Tropes" underlined in last paragraph on page. p. 171: Star (*) in top margin next to sentence: "It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain." In sentence "The soul knows no persons" "knows no" is underlined. p. 172: Star next to, and parts of this sentence are underlined: "To aim to convert a man by miracles is a profanation of the soul." p. 173 "Coeval" is circled; in margins: "contemporaneous" and "of same age." p. 177 Portions of sentence underlined: "...out of memory, and not out of the soul" and "historical Christianity destroys the power of preaching, by withdrawing it from the exploration of the moral nature of man...". p. 178: "degrading the character of Jesus" is underlined. p. 179: First seven lines of last paragraph on page (beginning "Yourself a newborn bard...") are marked in the margin.
Society and solitude	A review by Lewis Mumford of Emerson's Journals and and a book of his early lectures is tucked into the book. Review appears to have been published in the New York Review [of Books?], January 18, 1968.
The heart of Emerson's journals	No marginalia.
The portable Emerson	p. 180: The line with the sentence beginning "We must obtain that, if we can..." is marked in the margin.
The selected writings of ____	p. v: "The Over-Soul" in "Contents" is marked with a checkmark.
Herr Eugen Duhring's revolution in science	No marginalia.
The place where I am standing: poems	No marginalia.
The insect world of ____	No marginalia.
Greek science, books 1 and 2	No marginalia.
The story of Thomas More	Tucked between pp. 54-55, an article from January 17, 1962 Milwaukee Journal regarding Thomas More.
Citizen Tom Paine	No marginalia.
Interpretations of American literature	No marginalia.
Gandhi	p. 8: Marks in the margin and underlining for the first, third, fourth, and fifth paragraphs on the page. p. 18: Mark in margin from the words "'He is a devotee who is jealous of none..." to the end of the paragraph. Bracketing in next paragraph from the words "'He who is ever brooding...'" to the end of the paragraph.
Poems from the Greek Anthology	No marginalia.
Tender is the night	Not reviewed?
Selected letters	No marginalia.
Portraits from life	p. 169: The beginning and end of the paragraph beginning "These slightest shades of English ruling-class life..." are lightly marked in the margin.
Two cheers for democracy	No marginalia.
Modern science and its philosophy	No marginalia.
Ezra Pound	No marginalia.
The age of belief	No marginalia.
Letters	Not reviewed?
May man prevail	p. 30: Several lines beginning with the sentence that starts "We feel superior to the Aztecs" have been marked in the margin. p. 69: Several lines beginning with "... materialism is supposed to mean that the main motivation in man..." have been marked in the margin. p. 71: Several lines beginning with "A man who lives by the favor of another..." have been marked in the margin. p. 81: Several lines beginning with "The Soviet system is an efficient..." have been marked in the margin.]
Basic teachings of the great philosophers	No marginalia.
Vision and design	No marginalia.
A history of philosophy	No marginalia.
Thew Birth and Death of the Sun	No marginalia.
Winslow Homer	Post card of Homer's "Palm Tree, Nassau" to Lorine in Ft. Atkinson tucked between pp. 180-181, from Bob Nero, postmarked Feb. 12, 1970 from New York, NY: "Just noteds in Jim Lowell's Asphodel catalog that he has a copy of Mina Loy's Lunar Baedeker & Time Tables for sale for $10.00 - Expensive or else I'd get it for you - But perhaps you are interested in getting it. Bob Nero." Post card of Homer's "Sloop Bermuda" to Mrs. Al Millen in Milwaukee tucked between pp. 216-217, from GR [Gail Roub?], postmarked Ft. Atkinson, Jan. 13, 1967: "Delighted to hear of your poem's acceptance. Perhaps they agonized over the JFK as I did - or needed the reference toi Bay of Pigs. I must subscribe to Poetry. Envy you the fresh paint job. Could use one myself. GR"
The Poems of Catullus	No marginalia.
The creative process	No marginalia.
The creative process	No marginalia.
Life with Picasso	pp. 52-54: X in the margin on p. 52 at the sentence starting "On the easel was a canvas...." X in the margin on p. 54 at the end of the paragraph beginning "I told him that if he had never painted..." which is where a section of the chapter ends.
Howl, and other poems	No marginalia.
The great writings of ____	No marginalia.
Only in America	No marginalia.
Winslow Homer	Newspaper clipping with color copy of Homer's "West Point, Prout Neck" tucked between 30 and 31.
Wine of life	No marginalia.
The Pocket Guide to the Wildflowers	No marginalia.
Sound and the form in modern poetry	No marginalia.
The Greek way to western civilization	On blank page at front: "Xmas 1949." Then, in child's hand: "Paul." Tucked between pp. 42-43 is a newspaper feature article entitled "The City Planners of Ancient Greece" from the Milwaukee Journal, November 25, 1962.
The Roman way	No marginalia.
Selected peoms of ____	No marginalia.
Introducing Shakespeare	No marginalia.
Scientists as writers	No marginalia.
The good soldier, Schweik	No marginalia.
Philosophy for pleasure	No marginalia.
The Hazlitt sampler	No marginalia.
Bitter-sweet poems	No marginalia.
A moveable feast	Illegible signature on first page, possibly ending with "Millen," plus date: 3rd July 1969. p. 9: Marked: "... and I kept away from it because of the smell of dirty bodies and the sour smell of drunkenness." p. 11: Marked: "I was writing about up in Michigan and since it was a wild, cold, blowing day it was that sort of day in the story." p. 12: Marked: "The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it." And: "... I entered far into the story and was lost in it. I was writing it now and it was not writing itself and I did not look up...." p. 13: Marked: "I read the last paragraph and then I looked up and looked for the girl and she had gone." "Half-carafe" is marked at the hyphen, with "demi" in the margin. Marked: "leaving on the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid...." p. 14: Marked: "I did not know it was too early for that because I did not know Paris well enough." And: "'Maybe it will be find and clear when we come back. It can be very fine when it is clear and cold.'" p. 15: Marked: "Because of the change in altitude I did not notice the grade of the hills except with pleasure, and the climb up to the top floor of the hotel where I worked, in a room that looked across all the roofs and the chimneys of the high hill of the quarter, was a pleasure." p. 16: The sentences beginning as follows are marked in margin: "Up in the room I had a bottle,..." "I always worked until I had something done,..." and "It was easy then because there was always one true sentence...." p. 17: The sentences beginning as follows are marked in margin: "I was trying to do this all the time I was writing,..." "Going down the stairs when I had worked well,..." and "I went there nearly every day...." p. 18: This passage in a description of Gertrude Stein is marked: "... her lovely thick, alive, immigrant hair which she wore put up in the same way she hade probably worn it in college. She talked all the time and at first it was about people and places." p. 19: The sentences beginning as follows are marked in margin: "Afterwards she explained to me,...." and "They seemed to like us too and treated us...." p. 20: Four passages on page have been marked, more than half the page. p. 21: Passages that start as follows are marked in margin: "I know that I was walking,..." "...gave me the natural eau-de-vie,..." and "...about modern pictures and about painters...." p. 22: About half the page has been marked in the margin. Question mark in margin re. "unbelievably" in "the unbelievably long book call The Making of Americans." p. 23: The sentences beginning as follows are marked in margin: "For publication in the review,..." Miss Stein thought that I was too uneducated about sex,..." and "Under question I tried to tell Miss Stein that when you were a boy...." p. 24: The sentence beginning as follows is marked in margin: "But I was always careful of my language...." p. 25: In margin near second line on page is: "Cocteau?" as an attempt to identify which writer is being spoken of. p. 26: Three pages are marked, constituting nearly half the page. p. 27: The sentences beginning as follows are marked in margin: "She wanted to know the gay part,..." and " "The other things I did not talk of...." p. 28: The sentence beginning as follows is marked in margin: "I could no see, then, that he was a dead man...." p. 29: Four passages are marked in the margin. "Genet" is also written in margin near sentence beginning "Janet Flanner gave me...." p. 30: Three passages are marked in margin, nearly half the page. p. 31: Three passages are marked in margin, nearly half the page. p. 32: Two paragraphs are marked in margin, beginning with "'Really?' I said." p. 33: The sentences including the following are marked in margin: "I thought of Miss Stein..." and "...in his delirium, thinking they were crying againswt him...." p. 35: The sentences beginning as follows are marked in margin: "The photographs all looked like..." and "She had pretty legs...." p. 36: Three paragraphs are marked in margin, beginning with: "'When does Joyce come in?' I asked." p. 37: Two paragraphs are marked in the margin, beginning with: "'Larbaud lived there,' she said." p. 38: The sentences beginning as follows are marked in margin: "And we'll never love anyone else..." and "'We're always lucky,' I said...." p. 40: Three passages are marked on the page, nearly half the page. p. 41: Check mark in margin near the line: "... and there was a small park at the water's edge...." p. 42: Three passages are marked on the page, nearly half the page. p. 43: The sentence beginning as follows is marked in the margin: "I did not fish because...." p. 44: This passage is marked in margin: "... it was as though a young person had died for no reason." p. 46: Sentence beginning "'No. We'll just figure...'" is marked in margin. p. 47: Three passages are marked in margin. "(cheaply?)" is written in margin near sentence: "We ate well and cheaply and drakn well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other." p. 49: Most of page is marked in margin. p. 51: "not describe" is underlined in the passage: "... always talking about how to make thinigs true, writing them, and put them rightly and not describe." Last four lines on page are marked in margin. p. 53: Last paragraph on page is marked in margin. p. 54. Three passages are marked in margin. p. 55: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 56: Four passages are marked in margin. p. 57: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 58: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 59: One passage is marked in margin. p. 67: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 68: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 69: Four passages are marked in margin. p. 70: One passage is marked in margin. p. 72. Three passages are marked in margin. p. 73: One passage is marked in margin. p. 74: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 75: Two passages are marked in margin. In margin near one of them, this note: "of WCW's poem (reeking of garlic)." p. 76: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 77: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 78: One passage is marked in margin. p. 79: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 80: One long passage is marked in margin. p. 82: In margin: "but EH knew damn well that he was working where interruption was only too likely." p. 83: One passage is marked in the margin. p. 85: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 86: One passage is marked in the margin. p. 89: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 90: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 92: Two passages are marked in margin. "Ca va?" in margin near the first of them. p. 93: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 94: Two passages are marked in margin. "But EH said it" in margin near the first. p. 95: Question mark in margin near underlining of "Japanese artists that Ezra knew." "Cf . [illegible names]" is also in margin. The sentence beginning "Dorothy's paintings I liked very much..." is marked in margin. p. 96: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 97: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 98: "unsuccessful rapist" and "explained them" are underlined. p. 99: Two sentences starting with "Ezra founded something called Bel Esprit..." are marked in margin. "Natalie Barney" is underlined in this passage. "Were these the US women I met in Paris?" is written in margin. p. 100: "pretending" is underlined in first line on page. Passage beginning with "I think it had something to do with..." is marked in margin. p. 101: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 102: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 103: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 104: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 105: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 108: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 109: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 110: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 111: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 112: One passage is marked in margin. Illegible names in margin nearby - possibily "Jane Heap?" and "Niki?" p. 114: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 115: Final seven lines on the page are marked in the margin. p. 116: One passage is marked in margin. p. 117: In passage about Evan Shipman, the words "fine poet" are underlined. p. 118: One passage is marked in margin. p. 119: One passage is marked in the margin. "[C]an't be" is underlined in passage "'It can't be the translation," with "but to a large extent it is" in margin. Question marked in margin next to "you can't reade Dostoevsky over and over." p. 120: One passage is marked in margtin. p. 121: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 122: One passage is marked in margin. p. 123: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 124: One passage is marked in margin. p. 125: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 126: Four passages are marked in the margin, with some underlining. p. 127: One passage is marked in the margin. p. 128: One passage is marked in the margin. p. 129: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 130: One passage is marked in margin. p. 131: One passage is marked in the margin. p. 132: One passage is marked in margin. p. 133: Four passages are marked in margin. p. 134: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 135: Two passages are marked in margin, with some underlining. p. 136: Four passages are marked in margin. p. 138: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 139: One passage is marked in margin. p. 140: One passage is marked in margin. p. 141: One passage is marked in margin. p. 142: Four passages are marked in margin. p. 144: "my father" is underlined. p. 145: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 146: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 147: Two passages are marked in margin. Check mark in margin near passage "... I felt the dealth loneliness that comes at the end of every day...." p. 148: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 149: Two check marks in margin, one underlining. p. 150: One passage is marked in margin. p. 151: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 152: One passage is marked in margin. p. 154: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 155: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 156: Two passages are marked in margin, with question mark near the first. p. 157: One passage is marked in margin. p. 159: One passage is marked in margin. p. 160: "Already?" is in margin near this sentence: "It lookied the book-jacket for a book of bad science fiction." One other passage on page is marked in margin. p. 161: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 163: One passage is marked in margin. p. 164: Marked in margin, and with question mark: "He laid the failure to Paris, the town best organized for a writer to write in that there is...." p. 164: One passage is marked in margin. p. 166: One passage is marked in margin. p. 167: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 169: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 170: One passage is marked in margin. p. 171: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 172: Two passages are marked in margin. p. 173: One passage is marked in margin. p. 174: Two passages are marked in margin, with an illegible name near the first of them. p. 179: One passage is marked in margin. p. 182: One passage is marked in margin. p. 184: One passage is marked in margin. p. 188: One passage is marked in margin. p. 189: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 190: Three passages are marked in margin. p. 191: Four passages are marked in margin. p. 192: Two passages are marked in margin.
Men at war	No marginalia.
An introduction to haiku	No marginalia.
William Morris	Tucked between the cover and first page is a newspaper clipping of a review entitleed "Wholly Innocent," from the New York Times Book Review, January 21, 1968, by John Russell. The review examines this biography of Morris by Philip Henderson and Ray Watkinson's William Morris as Designer. On first page: "Millen" in LN's handwriting, in ink. In ballpoint pen on back flyleaf: "born 24 March 1834."
New Green World	No marginalia.
Some poems	Not reviewed??
Modern poetry: eEssays in criticism	No marginalia.
The iliad	Incribed on blank page at front of book: "from Paul to Lorine, Feb. 14, 1952."
The odyssey	Inscribed on blank page at front of book: "Happy Thanksgiving from Paul Zukofsky, 1949."
The odyssey	No marginalia.
A selection of his poems and prose	Notation on inside of back cover: "14, 188, 189, 190, 191, 197, 198, 199, 225." p. 188: "... undo the very buttons of my being..." is underlined. pp. 190: Paragraphs beginning "What you write of Apuleius..." and "By the by when I was at Oxford..." are marked with small dots in the margin. p. 191: The line that reads "... vexation of spirit" is marked with small dot in the margin. p. 197: The paragraphs beginning "I have some musical matters..." and "You saw and liked some music..." are marked with small dots in the margin. pp. 198-199: Paragraphs beginning "If this letter is dull...," "Nov. 12 - You asked me for some time...," and "I must write something..." are marked with small dots in the margin.
The complete works of ____	No marginalia.
The sense of Shakespear's sonnets	No marginalia.
An enquiry concerning human understanding	No marginalia.
New poems by American poets	No marginalia.
Autobiography	A tiny news clipping is tucked between pp. 8-9, apparently quoting from "Byron's Letters" about Leigh Hunt. p. 502, in bottom margin of index page: "fire-fly - 390."
On art and artists	No marginalia.
Knowledge, morality, and destiny, essays	No marginalia.
Man in the modern world	No marginalia.
The lost weekend	No marginalia.
Casebook of 'The Turn of the Screw'	Note on blank last page: "Index The Sacred Fount - Edmund Wilson p. 123."
Daisy Miller	No marginalia.
Daumier	No marginalia.
Parisian sketches	No marginalia.
Selected letters	No marginalia.
The American novels and stories	No marginalia.
The American scene	No marginalia.
The art of travel	No marginalia.
The tragic muse	No marginalia.
The turn of the screw	No marginalia.
The Varieties of Religious Experience	Notation on inside of end sheet: "78-79, 85, 86, 140, 498, 499, 505, 509." p. 505: Dot in margin near phrase "... the fact that the conscious person is continuous with a wider self...." p. 509: Dot in margin near the sentence beginning "The whole drift of my education...."
The picture history of painting from cave	Notes on last page of book naming "Rocco - 17th cent." painters; 18th century painters; and 19th century painters. Additional notes on inside back cover are covered over by library's pocket for date due card.
Poetry and the age	No marginalia.
Autobiography of ____	p. 109: The line reading "the rest with pistols, swords, pikes, pruning-hooks, scythes..." may be marked in the margin with a dot.
The Soviet power	No marginalia.
Lives of the poets	No marginalia.
Life on other worlds	p. 39: Page number is circled. Words underlined in second full paragraph on page: "...may be expected to possess an atmosphere" and "telescope." p. 70: Portion of first complete paragraph on page is marked in margin at sentence beginning "Such a distance may seem large..." to the end of the paragraph. Notation on last (blank) page: ". 70."
A portrait of the artist as a young man	No marginalia.
Letters to Milena	No marginalia.
Keats' well-read urn, an introduction to literary	No marginalia.
Selected letters	Notation on blank last page: "Feb. 14-May 3 to Ginger in Kentucky."
The poetical works of ____	No marginalia.
Wyndham Lewis	No marginalia.
The journals of ...	No marginalia.
I was Hitler's doctor	No marginalia.
Fables	No marginalia.
Political philosophy	On first page: "Lorine Niedecker - Junior Year." Several check marks on table of contents. p. 29: "coming up" is written in top margin. p. 55: Marked in margin: "The perfect political machine is fast superseding the lobbyist." p. 141: Mark under dqate "1917" at end of a speech "On Children's Bureau." pp. 168-169: Three sentences are bracketed, beginning with "I was a member of the house of representatives in 1886." pp. 175: 177: The paragraph starting at bottom of p. 175 and much of p. 176 are marked in the margin. Much of paragraph ending at top of p. 177 is marked in margin. p. 190: First three paragraphs of Chapter XIV "Militarism - Prepared Should Be For Defense" are bracketed and marked with big check mark. p. 224: Most of the only complete paragraph on the page is marked in margin with a bracket. p. 228: Bracketed passage: "Who does the senator think are the people of this country? Is it the 2 per cent, owners of two thirds of the wealth, or is it the 98 per cdent of the population who have to divide among themselves...." p. 251: Second half of first paragraph of Chapter XIX on the Peace Treaty and the League of Nations is bracketed in margin, with a big question mark. p. 256: First complete paragraph on p. 256 is bracketed, with "Very Good" written in mafrgin. All of "Denial of Justice to Egypt" is bracketed. p. 257. Final ten lines on page, about "The War in Retrospect," is bracketed. p. 258: Three paragraphs on page are bracketed, with "quotre" in margin near the first of them, and "confidence in Wilson? No." near the third. p. 259. Two passages on page are bracketed. The word "hatred" is in margin on page, unrelated to brackets.. p. 260: Second paragraph on page to endof speech is bracketed, with a check mark in margin. "Status Quo" is circled in "League of Nations to Preserve Status Quo" with question mark near it. First paragraph of this speech is bracketed and marked "good." p. 261: End of first paragraph on page is bracketed, with question mark. "This covevant" in second paragraph is marked. "Well, war in India?" is written in margin nearby. p. 262: Two passages are marked in margin, with check marks. p. 266: "Rebuttal" is written in margin and paragraph ending at top of page is marked in margin. p. 267: Paragraph beginning "How puny appear the ambitions of Germany" is bracketed, with check mark in margin. p. 268: Last paragraph on page is bracketed, with check mark in margin. p. 270: Two paragraphs are bracked, with check mark. p. 273: Paragraph beginning "These jugglers with the world's destiny..." is marked in margin. p. 274: "The commercial interests of the British Empire overtopped the human rights of martyred Ireland." p. 417: Two paragraphs on page are bracketed and marked with check marks in margin. p. 418: Second paragraph on page is bracketed and marked with check mark in margin. p. 419: Second full paragraph on page is bracketed. p. 423: Large check mark in margin near index entry for the League of Nations.
Dialogue on George Santayana	No marginalia.
The Philosophy of Humanism	No marginalia.
The way of life	p. 17: in top margin of page: "A sound Confucianism is the outward manifestation of Taoism (as Lao-Tze himself taught it). Lao - - mysticism in the form of natural truths. Havelock Ellis: 'has the mystic's heart but also the physicist's touch & the biologist's eye." p. 93: Two lines including "describes the highest good as being like water" are marked in the margin. p. 105: Lines reading "Live within yourself; do not exhaust yourself in the world as it is" are marked in the margin. At top of second last page of the book, these (page?) numbers are listed: 11, 15 [crossed out], 14, 23, 25, 35, 40, 46, 47 [inserted above], 48, 51, 52, 67, 68.
Quello che la matita scrive	Inscription on blank page at front of book: "for Lorine Niedecker - I'm a devoted admirer of her work - J Laughlin" p. 12: Corrects typo "ligth" to "light." p. 22: Corrects typo "nigth" to "night." p. 40: Corrects wrong order of lines and wrong stanza break in final two stanzas. p. 86: Corrects "Way" to "May" in attribution of a quote from Fortune magazine.
Etruscan places	Two newspaper clippings have been tucked between pp. 66-67. One is "Estruscans, the Mystery People" by Jay Scriba, published by the Milwaukee Journal, Sept. 25, 1970. The other is part of an article about "Whistler's Mother," no date, no newspaper of publication. Last page: "Asphodel p. 19."
Selected Letters, ed. by Diana Trilling	Tucked between pp. 124-125 is part of a page torn from a magazine, with a poem bvy George Aldis titled "Portrait of D.H. Lawrence." On fourth page from back: "p. 10 - religion."
St. Mawr and the man who died	No marginalia.
Studies in classic American literature	In list of Anchor Books at back, this title is marked in the margin: Lawrence, D.H. Sea and Sardinia and Selections from Twilight in Italy.
Twilight in Italy	No marginalia.
Pansies, poems	No marginalia.
Seven pillars of wisdom	No marginalia.
Motive and method in the Cantos of Ezra	No marginalia.
Human destiny	p. 70: The entire paragraph beginning m"The Pre-Cambrian sandworms were probably not very different..." is marked in the margin. p. 78: The sentence beginning "Evolution continues in our time..." at the start of the last paragraph on the page is marked in the margin.
Cider with Rosie	No marginalia.
Thomas Jefferson, American humanism	No marginalia.
Materialism and empirio-criticisms	No marginalia.
The four loves	No marginalia.
Practical English for high schools	"Lorine Niedecker" is on first line of first page." "A.T." is on second line. p. 32: Notations in margin: "J. Sp. loon gone G." p. 37: In margin: "Fire." pp. 40-43: Several sentences and paragraphs are marked. pp. 46-47: Paragrphs bracketed, check marks in margins. p. 49: "Write" next to an assignment. p. 50: Notations, including "oral" spelled "orral." p. 63: Bracketing of text started. p. 68: Bracketing of text ended. pp. 108-111: In practice section, lots of verb tenses are written out. p. 118: In margin: "Than and as are conjunctions, not prepositions." pp. 121-122: Words written out again in practice section. pp. 129-130: Notations, underlinings, and practice in margins, including: "ly - manner of." p. 142: "Bring in list" in margin. pp. 147-148: Notations re. "Terms Often Confused In Use." pp. 150-152: Usage of "shall/will" marked in margin. Underlining. "Supercilious" underlined, with "superficial" in margin. pp. 156-158: Underlinings. p. 167: "When used" and "necessary marks?" in margin. p. 169: "O'clock" at top of page. Question mark next to paragraph about nonrestrictive phrases and clauses. pp. 171-173: Notation and bracketing re. Rules od Punctuation and restrictive/nonrestrive clauses. pp. 175-177: Notation about apostrophe, practice with question mark and exclamation, etc. p. 196: Very light writing or erasure, illegible. p. 200: "Summary sentence" in mkargin. p. 267: Check mark in margin next to: "A pleasing method of presentation helps to persuade." p. 390: The rhree books that are marked in list of ones "useful to one who is studying the vocations:" Fowler, Starting in Life. Parsons, Choosing a Vocation. Weaver, Profitable Vocations for Girls. On last page: "like ~ ."
Time and western man	No marginalia.
The wisdom of China and India	No marginalia.
The letters of Franz Liszt to Mare zu	This notation on last page: "Prefaces page 21, 29, 34, 37, 68, 72, 102, 110, 115, 123, 129, 135, 175, 205, 216, 237, 242, 274, 275."
On the nature of things	No marginalia.
Letters	Review of The Life of Niccolo Machiavelli by Roberto Ridolfi has been tucked between pp. 90-91.
The life of the bee	No marginalia.
Thure Kumlien--Koshkonong naturalist	Handwritten on the inside front cover: "Autographede by the author Angie Kumlien Main, for Lorine Niedecker."
Yellow-headed blackbirds at Lake	No marginalia.
Selected poems	No marginalia.
Jefferson and the rights of man	No marginalia.
Jefferson the Virginian	No marginalia.
Anti-Memoirs	No marginalia.
Journal	These numbers are recorded on the last page of the book: 13, 62, 71, 83, 89, 227, 231, 248, 200, 210
Beethoven	"Lorine Niedecker Millen" on first page.
Creative intuition art and poetry	Two copies. No marginalia in either copy.
Creative intution in art and poetry	Not reviewed?
Frames of a story	On first page: "Novembver, 1970. To Lorine - with deep admiration - Daphne"
Selected Correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels	p. 548: Under index entry "Science and dialectic" p. 322 is marked. On second last page: "p. 322."
The Notebooks of Henry James	p. 101: There seem to be two intentional marks in the margin related to the phrases "He rates T. very high..." and "... of all the deep and the delicate - and of London and of art, and of everything...."
Portraits (In French) Le Cercle du Liore de	No marginalia.
Introduction to Aristotle	No marginalia.
Selected poems	No marginalia.
Stories, poems and letters	In Copy #1, p. 363: first and second paragraphs of letter to Evert A. Duyckinck are marked. No marginalia in Copy #2.
The confidence-man	No marginalia.
Raids on the unspeakable	Tucked between pp. 138-139 is a newspaper clipping of a New York Times Book Review review by Robert Coles of two books by Thomas Mereton; the article is entitled "Bringing Words Out of Silence." Date is December 23, 1984.