Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper

Item

Title

Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper

Identifier

7598.cpd

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Found in a black hard-cover exercise book inscribed 'I.B. Gurney / 1 Westfield Terrace / Longford / Gloucester'. The poem exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). The version shown here was included in Edmund Blunden and Leonard Clark's editions of Gurney poems in 1954 and 1973 respectively.

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

4

Contributor

Alisa Miller