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68355: Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper

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Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. The poem exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively. |

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Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. 'Had I a Song' was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney poems of 1973, and in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). 'The Lock-Keeper', with the opening shown on these pages, exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively. Written while Gurney was a patient at Middlesex War Hospital, St Albans.
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. The poem exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively.
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. The poem exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively.

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Identifier

7598.cpd | 7230.jpg | IG-64-4-41.jpg 7231.jpg | IG-64-4-42.jpg 7232.jpg | IG-64-4-43.jpg 7233.jpg | IG-64-4-44.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 | Poem

Pages

1, 2, 3, 4

Number of Pages

4

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives / The Ivor Gurney Estate

Collection ID

Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.4.41 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.4.42 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.4.43 | Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.4.44

Repository Name

The Ivor Gurney Archive

Repository Address

Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK

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