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Item

Identifier

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Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Manuscript drafts found in the notebook 'GA 45457' entitled 'Best Poems'. A version was included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954.

Date

September 1922 - 1925

Date Created

1922-09-01

Temporal Coverage

1925-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Gloucester or Dartford, England

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Typescript

Type

Poem

Contributor

Alisa Miller