File 2. - Poetry

Copies of some thirty-four poems by Dorothy Bonarjee, mostly holograph, [1914]-[1970s], consisting of further drafts or copies of fifteen poems present in her black notebook (Bonarjee 1) (ff. 1-17) and nineteen additional poems not recorded elsewhere (ff. 1 verso, 5 verso, 18-36), together with a few other fragments (ff. 1 verso, 37 recto-verso).
A note concerning the end of her engagement to a Welsh boy whose parents said 'She is very beautiful and intelligent but she is Indian', thought to be associated with her poem 'Renunciation', is on f. 8 verso. The copies of 'Menelaus' Lamenting' and 'Renunciation', [1970s] (ff. 16-17), are in the hand of Bonarjee's college friend Linda Davies, while 'Clarach' (f. 2) is a typescript copy, [?1975], [by Sheela Bonarjee] of a transcript sent to her by Davies (see Bonarjee 3, f. 14 verso); all three are transcribed from the printed versions. Ten of the poems were published in The Dragon (1913-1917) and The Welsh Outlook (1914-1919) (ff. 1-2, 5-8, 10, 12-13, 16-18), while twenty-three appear in The Hindu Bard (2023) (ff. 1-4, 6-11, 13-15, 17-19, 25-26, 29-35). Also included are a copy of William Cory's poem 'Heraclitus' in Bonarjee's hand (f. 38) and a typescript of 'Le Hibou et la Poussiquette', a French translation of Edward Lear's 'The Owl and the Pussycat' (f. 39).