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| Author | Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937) |
|---|---|
| Title | The Fire Kindled / To the Poet Before Battle |
| Notes | A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. Gurney notes that 'The Fire Kindled', with numerous changes in ink made in the poets hand, was written at Merville and 'To the Poet Before Battle' was written at Chelmsford. |
| Item Date | November 1917 |
| Creation place | London, England (Google Maps) |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Folio |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Published |
| Content | Poem |
| Page | 16 of 72 |
| Collection ID | Papers of Ivor Gurney 39537 |
| 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-39537pp16-17.jpg |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/7607/6349 |
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| Author | Gurney, Ivor (1890-1937) |
|---|---|
| Title | Severn and Somme |
| Notes | A copy of the second edition (March 1919) of Ivor Gurney's collection 'Severn and Somme', first published in November 1917 by Sidgwick and Jackson, owned by Gurney and annotated and corrected by him some time after 1921, probably in April 1925. Includes an inscription by Gurney, numerous alterations in the poet's hand, in black and blue ink, and descriptions of where Gurney remembers the poems to have been written. |
| Item Date | November 1917 |
| Creation place | London, England (Google Maps) |
| File type | Image |
| Item source | Folio |
| Item medium | Paper |
| Writing medium | Published |
| Content | Poem |
| 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 |
| Reference URL | http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/document/7607 |
