51492: A worm fed on the heart of Corinth

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posted on 2024-05-02, 18:51 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

First draft in pencil with pencil alteration on the back of a half page of small printed paper headed 'The Y. M. C. A. with H. M. Troops'. Contains two extra cancelled lines. Corinth, Babylon and Rome were cities which fell partly due to inner corruption. Corinth was associated with loose living.

History

Identifier

1464.jpg | IRIWM_1_229.jpg

Subject

Allied Forces | Fighting Men | Western Front

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Date

May 1916 - June 1916?

Date Created

01/05/1916

Temporal Date

30/06/1916

Spatial

England or France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Imperial War Museum / The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate

Collection ID

IR/I/229 f.10

Repository Name

Imperial War Museum, Department of Documents

Repository Address

Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road, London, SE1 6HZ, UK

Publisher

The First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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Keywords

First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems Allied Forces Fighting Men Western Front

Licence

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0