Dead Man's Dump
Item
Title
Dead Man's Dump
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Identifier
1716.cpd
Creator
Rosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)
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Abstract
Third Typescript of two pages on pink paper corrected in ink with pencil alternatives. Title in pencil. Page one contains lines 1-19, 4 lines crossed through in pencil, 20-24, two unused lines cancelled in pencil with the alternative 'Emptied of God-ancestralled essences.' written in the margin, 26-47. Isaac Rosenberg was transferred to the 40th Division Works Battalion in January 1917, meaning that part of his responsibility was taking wire up to the line at night.
Date
January - May 1917
Date Created
1917-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1917-05-31
Spatial Coverage
Source
Folio
Medium
Paper
Format
Typescript
Type
Poem
number of pages
2
Contributor
Alisa Miller
Publisher
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Subject
Fighting Men
Imperial Forces
War in Africa