O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

Item

Title

O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy

Identifier

7446.cpd

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. Manuscript in ink in Ivor Gurney's hand. This poem was found in notebook GA 45457 labelled 'Best Poems'. The title is after the American poet Walt Whitman, and the 'Michael of line 16 refers to the Archangel who barred Adam and Eve from Paradise. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954, and in the Appendix of P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).

Date

September 1922 - 1925

Date Created

1922-09-01

Spatial Coverage

Gloucester or Dartford, England

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

number of pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller