Tobacco
Item
Title
Tobacco
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Identifier
7497.cpd
IG-64-1f
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
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Abstract
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Numerous versions of the poem exist, and a shorter version from the green manuscript exercise book 64.3 was published in 'The London Mercury' in 1924. The draft shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). 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
England
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Source
Notebook
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Poem
number of pages
3
Contributor
Alisa Miller