O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
Item
Title
O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
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Identifier
7446.cpd
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
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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
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Source
Notebook
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Poem
number of pages
2
Contributor
Alisa Miller