posted on 2024-04-18, 18:16authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. The 'wedges and streaks' refer to shapes made by candlelight as described in other poems. An alternative typescript exists with added lines. The draft show here was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems of 1973, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
History
Identifier
7194.jpg | IG-64-1f21r.jpg
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
Date
1920 - 1922
Date Created
01/01/1920
Temporal Date
31/12/1922
Spatial
England
Source
Notebook
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 64.1.21r
Repository Name
The Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository Address
Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK