Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper
| Title |
Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper
|
|---|---|
| Author |
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
|
| Notes |
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.
|
| Item date |
1920 - 1922
|
| Creation place |
England
|
| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Writing medium | |
| Content | |
| Total number of pages |
4
|
| Cataloguer |
Alisa Miller
|
| Repository name |
The Ivor Gurney Archive
|
| Repository address line1 |
Gloucestershire Archives
|
| Repository address line2 |
Clarence Row, Alvin Street
|
| Repository address line3 |
Gloucester
|
| Repository address Zip code |
GL1 3DW
|
| Repository address country |
UK
|
| Repository address URL |
Collection
Citation
“Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper,” by Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937). First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 9, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/7597.
Permitted Use
This item is available for non-commercial educational use under the terms of the Jisc Model Licence. Further details available at: http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/permitteduse
