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18 James Joyce's Manuscripts and Letters
of Joyce's Zurich friends. 5 Dating and place of translation are
given as "Zurich 1916." It seems strange that Joyce should have
included this translation in the manuscript, placing it, as if of equal
importance, between the tenth and twelfth poems, making it the
eleventh.
IV. A. 2. VERSES: POMES PENYEACH, "A MEMORY OF THE
PLAYERS IN A MIRROR AT MIDNIGHT"
Loose Sheet, Joyce's hand in ink and pencil.
Title: No title.
Collation: 1 sheet of yellow unruled onionskin paper; written on one
side only. 26.8 x 21.3 cm.
Contents: 4 lines from the poem "A Memory of the Players in a Mirror
at Midnight," eleventh poem of PP, in ink, fair copy. Lines
8-11 of poem. The last line differs slightly from the text in PP.
Notes in pencil scribbled beneath the lines of poetry (probably
for possible use in Ulysses.) Brief notes in pencil begin, "high
C . . ." and end, "... milksop was: church."
Dating: ca. 1917. 6
IV. A. 3. VERSES: POMES PENYEACH, "A PRAYER"
Draft of "A Prayer," the thirteenth poem of PP, can be found on
pp. [11, 13, 15] of MS. VI. B. 5. Many corrections, numerous variants
between MS. and published version, probably the first draft of
poem.
*IV. A. 4. VERSES: POMES PENYEACH, "A PRAYER"
Loose Sheet, typescript (purple ribbon), double-spaced.
Title: "A PRAYER"
5 See Budgen, James Joyce and the Making of Ulysses, pp. 12-13, for the
German text of Beran's poem. See Elmann, James Joyce, pp. 444-45, where
Joyce's translation is printed "from the copy in possession of Frau Lisa
Beran." There are only minor variants of punctuation between MS.and published
version.
6 Dating and place of composition given in the first edition of PP is "Zurich:
1917."