posted on 2024-04-18, 18:22authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Manuscript drafts found in the notebook 'GA 45457' entitled 'Best Poems'. A version was included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954.
History
Identifier
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Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
Date
September 1922 - 1925
Date Created
01/09/1922
Temporal Date
31/12/1925
Spatial
Gloucester or Dartford, England
Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Format
Typescript
Type
Poem
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Rights
The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives / The Ivor Gurney Estate
Collection ID
Papers of Ivor Gurney 45457
Repository Name
The Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository Address
Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK