The Stone-Breaker

Item

Title

The Stone-Breaker

Identifier

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Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. This is a 5 stanza version of the poem, dated 'Warrington July'. An earlier draft of the poem showing only the first 5 lines exists in the black manuscript notebook 64.5.7. Gurney revised the poem and sent it to Marion Scott in 'The Canon Notebook' 52.5 with two new opening and two new closing stanzas, asking her opinion of the work in September 1918. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.

Date

July 1918

Date Created

1918-07-01

Temporal Coverage

1918-07-31

Spatial Coverage

Warrington, England

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pencil

Type

Poem

pages

1

number of pages

44

Contributor

Alisa Miller