posted on 2024-04-18, 18:15authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). An alternative typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. 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'. | </p><p>File description(s):</p><p>Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Another typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. 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'.<br>Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). An alternative typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. 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'.</p>