87982: Song of Pain and Beauty / Spring. Rouen, May 1917 / June-To-Come / Hark, Hark, the Lark

<p dir="ltr">Gurney notes that 'Song of Pain and Beauty' was written at Gommecourt and Chaulnes, and 'Spring. Rouen, May 1917', with numerous alterations and stanzas crossed out in pen, was written at Rouen.</p><p dir="ltr">Gurney notes that 'June-To-Come' and 'Hark, Hark, The Lark' were both written at Arras. | </p><p dir="ltr">File description(s):</p><p dir="ltr">A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written.</p>