In Retreat
Item
Title
In Retreat
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Identifier
7519.cpd
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
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Abstract
This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.
Date
23rd April 1925
Date Created
1925-04-23
Spatial Coverage
Dartford, England
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Source
Notebook
Medium
Paper
Format
Pen
Type
Poem
number of pages
13
Contributor
Alisa Miller