O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy
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| Author | Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937) |
|---|---|
| Title | O Tan-Faced Prairie Boy |
| Notes | Typescript prepared by Marion Scott with pencil notations in an unknown hand. The title is after a poem by the American poet Walt Whitman. The 'Michael' of line 6 is a reference to the Archangel who barred Adam and Eve from Paradise. Included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the Appendix to P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). |
| Item Date | Unknown |
| Creation place | England |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Leaf |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Typescript |
| Content | Poem |
| Collection ID | Papers of Ivor Gurney 21.44a |
| Repository name | The Ivor Gurney Archive |
| Repository address | Gloucestershire Archives Clarence Row, Alvin Street Gloucester GL1 3DW UK |
| Repository URL | http://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives |
| Cataloguer | Alisa Miller |
| Filename | IG-21-44a.jpg |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/6265 |
