posted on 2024-04-18, 18:16authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. This draft was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Another version of the poem after a missing original was published in Edmund Blunden's and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney's poems in 1964 and 1973 respectively. 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
7205.jpg | IG-64-1f53r.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 64.1.53r
Repository Name
The Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository Address
Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK