The Lock-Keeper
Page description
| Title |
The Lock-Keeper
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|---|---|
| Author |
Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
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| 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.
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| Item date |
1920 - 1922
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| Creation place |
England
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| Item source | |
| Item medium | |
| Writing medium | |
| Content | |
| Page number |
4
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| Total number of pages |
4
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| Cataloguer |
Alisa Miller
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| Filename |
IG-64-4-44.jpg
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| Collection ID |
Papers of Ivor Gurney 64.4.44
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| Repository name |
The Ivor Gurney Archive
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| Repository address line1 |
Gloucestershire Archives
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| Repository address line2 |
Clarence Row, Alvin Street
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| Repository address line3 |
Gloucester
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| Repository address Zip code |
GL1 3DW
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| Repository address country |
UK
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| Repository address URL |
Collection
Citation
“Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 20, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/9414.
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Document description
| 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
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| 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 |
Citation
“Had I A Song / The Lock-Keeper,” First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed May 20, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/9414.
