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A worm fed on the heart of Corinth

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AuthorRosenberg, Isaac (1890-1918)
TitleA worm fed on the heart of Corinth
NotesFirst draft in pencil with pencil alteration on the back of a half page of small printed paper headed 'The Y. M. C. A. with H. M. Troops'. Contains two extra cancelled lines. Corinth, Babylon and Rome were cities which fell partly due to inner corruption. Corinth was associated with loose living.
Item DateMay 1916 - June 1916?
Creation placeEngland or France
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumPencil
ContentPoem
Item height100
Item width130
Collection IDIR/I/229f.10
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
FilenameIRIWM_1_229.jpg
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/item/1455