66193: The Volunteer

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

Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a manuscript from a letter of 29th August 1917 to Scott. Also found in the blue exercise book 52.5. The quotation in stanza 5 is from the American poet Walt Whitman's 'Passage to India'. Published in 'The Spectator' on 22nd February 1919. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).

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Identifier

7464.cpd | 7130.jpg | IG-64-11-53.jpg 7131.jpg | IG-64-11-55.jpg

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

Aug-17

Date Created

01/08/1917

Temporal Date

31/08/1917

Spatial

Vlamertinghe, Belgium

Source

Leaf

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 64.11.53 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.11.55

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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