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52504: A worm fed on the heart of Corinth

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posted on 2024-05-02, 18:52 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Pencil draft with pencil alterations, also with 6 extra canceled lines and 8 canceled alternative lines to lines 8-10. On a sheet of Y. M. C. A. paper, the printed address almost torn off. Contains, on the back, pencil notes relating to an altercation with a railway Company about an alleged non-payment of fares. Corinth, along with Babylon and Rome, were cities which fell partly due to inner corruption. Corinth was associated with loose living. |

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Pencil draft with pencil alterations, also with 6 extra canceled lines and 8 canceled alternative lines to lines 8-10. On a sheet of Y. M. C. A. paper, the printed address almost torn off. Contains, on the back, pencil notes relating to an altercation with a railway Company about an alleged non-payment of fares. Corinth, along with Babylon and Rome, were cities which fell partly due to inner corruption. Corinth was associated with loose living.
Describes an altercation with a railway Company about on alleged non-payment of fares. On the front side is a draft of 'A worm fed on the heart of Corinth'.

History

Identifier

1708.cpd | 1465.jpg | IRIWM_1_230.jpg 1466.jpg | IRIWM_1_230_1.jpg

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Date

May 1916 - June 1916?

Date Created

01/05/1916

Temporal Date

30/06/1916

Spatial

England or France | England or France London

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Poem | Poem

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Imperial War Museum / The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate

Collection ID

IR/I/229 f.10 | IR/I/230b

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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    The Isaac Rosenberg Collection

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