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Dusk and the Mirror / Lusitania / Significance

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AuthorRosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)
TitleDusk and the Mirror / Lusitania / Significance
NotesOn page torn from ledger. Contains two pencil drafts of the poem 'Significance' and pencil fragment [You can never bury him]. The 'Lusitania' was a British passenger liner sunk by a German torpedo, 7 May 1915, on a homeward voyage from New York. 1,198 people died, including 100 Americans. A draft of 'Dusk and the Mirror' is on the reverse.
Item DateJune - August 1915
Creation placeLondon
File typeCompound Object
Item sourceFolio
Item mediumPaper
ContentPoem
Item height320
Item width220
Repository nameImperial War Museum, Department of Documents
Repository address
Imperial War Museum
Lambeth Road
London
SE1 6HZ
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.iwm.org.uk/
CataloguerAlisa Miller
CopyrightThe Imperial War Museum/The Isaac Rosenberg Literary Estate
Digital repositoryThe First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/1694