68459: Letter: To Edmund Blunden.

https://doi.org/10.25446/oxford.25638000

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

<p dir="ltr">Letter in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. Congratulates Edmund Blunden on winning the 'Hawthornden Prize', which was announced in 'The Times' on 30 June 1922 / discusses Blunden's 'The Shepherd' (1920) / mentions his own poem 'The Giant Puffball' / discusses writing pastoral poetry / mentions Lascelles Abercrombie / includes Gurney's poem 'First Spring'.</p>

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Identifier

9388.cpd | 9340.jpg | EBHRC_239.jpg 9341.jpg | EBHRC_240.jpg

Subject

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Date

Jul-22

Date Created

01/07/1922

Temporal Date

15/07/1922

Spatial

Longford, England

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Letter | Letter

Pages

1, 2

Number of Pages

Contributor

Alisa Miller

Rights

The Harry Ransom Center / The Edmund Blunden Literary Estate

Collection ID

The Edmund C. Blunden Collection

Repository Name

The Harry Ransom Center

Repository Address

The University of Texas at Austin, 21st and Guadalupe Streets, Austin, Texas, 78712, USA

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Keywords

First World War Poetry Digital Archive World War One Letters Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0