87790: Inscription / England the Mother
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posted on 2024-04-18, 17:57 authored by First World War Poetry Digital Archive Project TeamDraft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand of England the Mother, being the last sonnet of the set that closes Severn & Somme (1917). Found in a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney at Rouen and elsewhere in France during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
Draft in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. The latter part of England the Mother is on the left hand page. The right hand page contains the draft of a poem 'Written after reading ""The Hour glass""' - a play by W.B. Yeats. From a red notebook inscribed 'Pte Gurney / 2/5 Gloucesters', used by Gurney, principally at Rouen, during May-June 1917 and containing various notes and drafts of poems.
