posted on 2024-04-18, 17:09authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Gurney notes that both 'Home-sickness', with numerous alterations in pen in Gurney's hand, and 'England the Mother' were written at Arras. These poems are part of a sonnet sequence dedicated to the English poet Rupert Brooke. |
File description(s):
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.
History
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
Date
Mar-19
Format
Published
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Rights
The Ivor Gurney Archive, Gloucestershire Archives / The Ivor Gurney Estate
Collection ID
Papers of Ivor Gurney 39537
Repository Name
The Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository Address
Gloucestershire Archives, Clarence Row, Alvin Street, Gloucester, GL1 3DW, UK