66068: The Immortal Hour

online resource

posted on 2024-04-18, 18:22 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand with Ivor Gurney's corrections in pencil. Manuscript included in a letter of 31st July 1917 to Scott. Another draft exists in the 'Canon' manuscript exercise book 52.5. The poem was published in 'The Westminster Gazette' in June 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).

History

Identifier

7124.jpg | IG-64-11-48.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

Jul-17

Date Created

01/07/1917

Temporal Date

31/07/1917

Spatial

Buire-au-Bois, France

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives / The Ivor Gurney Estate

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.11.47

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK