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66176: O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

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posted on 2024-04-18, 18:15 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team

Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. The title is after the American poet Walt Whitman, and the 'Michael of line 16 refers to the Archangel who barred Adam and Eve from Paradise. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954, and in the Appendix of P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).

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Identifier

7446.cpd | 6930.jpg | IG-45457-p54.jpg 6931.jpg | IG-45457-p56.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

September 1922 - 1925

Date Created

01/09/1922

Spatial

Gloucester or Dartford, England

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem | Poem

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

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

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First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Poems

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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