O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

Item

Title

O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

Identifier

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Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Typescript prepared by Marion Scott with pencil notations in an unknown hand. The title is after a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman. The 'Michael' of line 6 is a reference to the Archangel who barred Adam and Eve from Paradise. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the Appendix to P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).

Date

Unknown

Spatial Coverage

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller