posted on 2024-04-18, 15:04authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
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'.