Strange Hells
Item
Title
Strange Hells
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Identifier
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Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
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Abstract
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. At least 4 versions of the poem survive, including separate drafts published in Edmund Blunden's and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney's poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively, and one from the green mottled manuscript exercise book 64.4, published in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.
Date
1920 - 1922
Date Created
1920-01-01
Temporal Coverage
1922-12-31
Spatial Coverage
England
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Source
Notebook
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Poem
Contributor
Alisa Miller