Song and Pain / Purple and Black

Item

Title

Song and Pain / Purple and Black

Creator

Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)

Abstract

Gurney notes that 'Purple and Black' was written East of Laventie.
A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written.

Date

March 1919

Format

Published

Contributor

Alisa Miller

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