Letter: To Marion Scott.
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Title
Letter: To Marion Scott.
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Identifier
7545.cpd
Creator
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
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Abstract
Mentions J.E. Patterson / Hillaire Belloc's essays / enjoyed Marion Scott's descriptions of 'the West' / existing as a soldier 'on a diet of Shakespeare and Folk Songs' / comments on a sonnet by Rupert Brooke sent to Ivor Gurney by Marion Scott from Brooke's '1914' sonnet sequence that Gurney does not like / mentions Thomas Hardy's 'The Dynasts' / happy to be leaving camp and going to billets / wonders what will happen next to the regiment / includes 'To the Poet Before Battle', which Gurney labels a 'sonnet' / asks Scott to criticise it, and not to think of Wordsworth / reports that the battalion will be reviewed by Lord Kitchener soon / playing in the band / a piece in the trench journal '5th Gloucester Magazine' by F.W. Harvey.
Date
3rd August 1915
Date Created
1915-08-03
Spatial Coverage
Chelmsford, England
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Source
Leaf
Medium
Paper
Format
Pencil
Type
Letter
number of pages
7
Contributor
Alisa Miller