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52519: The Unicorn

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

Pencil draft of lines 187-197 of the verse play entitled here as 'The Amulet', numbered sixteen. On an incomplete sheet of blue paper. Isaac Rosenberg described the 'The Amulet' as a poem rather than a verse play. During the summer of 1917 he abandoned 'The Amulet' and began to work on 'The Unicorn', reusing many lines from the earlier poem.
Pencil draft of lines 209-232 of the verse play here entitled 'The Amulet', written on the reverse of IR/III/101. With stage instructions following line 232. Numbered 18. Isaac Rosenberg described the 'The Amulet' as a poem rather than a verse play. During the summer of 1917 he abandoned 'The Amulet' and began to work on 'The Unicorn', reusing many lines from the earlier poem.
Pencil draft of lines 198-208 of the verse play here entitled 'The Amulet' and unused lines. Numbered 17 on blue paper. Isaac Rosenberg described the 'The Amulet' as a poem rather than a verse play. During the summer of 1917 he abandoned 'The Amulet' and began to work on 'The Unicorn', reusing many lines from the earlier poem.
Pencil draft of lines 233 to the end of the verse play entitled 'The Amulet'. Numbered 19, on an incomplete sheet of blue paper. Isaac Rosenberg described the 'The Amulet' as a poem rather than a verse play. During the summer of 1917 he abandoned 'The Amulet' and began to work on 'The Unicorn', reusing many lines from the earlier poem.

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Identifier

1722.cpd | 1538.jpg | IRIWM_III_100.jpg 1539.jpg | IRIWM_III_101.jpg 1540.jpg | IRIWM_III_101_1.jpg 1541.jpg | IRIWM_III_102.jpg

Creator

Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)

Date

1916-1917 | 1916 - 1917

Date Created

01/01/1916 | 01/06/1916

Temporal Date

01/04/1917 | 31/07/1917

Spatial

France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Play

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4

Number of Pages

4

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Imperial War Museum / The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate

Collection ID

IR/III/100 | IR/III/101 | IR/III/102 | IR/III/103

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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