Riez Bailleul ['...in blue tea-time']

Item

Title

Riez Bailleul ['...in blue tea-time']

Identifier

7476.cpd
IG-64-1f2

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). An alternative typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. 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

Source

Notebook

Medium

Paper

Format

Pen

Type

Poem

number of pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller