The Volunteer

Item

Title

Identifier

7464.cpd

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Manuscript in pen in Marion Scott's hand. After a manuscript from a letter of 29th August 1917 to Scott. Also found in the blue exercise book 52.5. The quotation in stanza 5 is from the American poet Walt Whitman's 'Passage to India'. Published in 'The Spectator' on 22nd February 1919. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919).

Date

August 1917

Date Created

1917-08-01

Temporal Coverage

1917-08-31

Spatial Coverage

Vlamertinghe, Belgium

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

number of pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller