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First Time In ['After the dread...']

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AuthorGurney, Ivor (1890-1937)
TitleFirst Time In ['After the dread...']
NotesTypescript of poem with pencil alterations in an unknown hand. Prepared by Marion Scott, and possibly amongst those poems submitted to and rejected by the firm Sidgwick and Jackson in 1922. Numerous versions of the poem survive, with particular alterations to line 13 and the final three lines. An alternative version exists, beginning with the line 'The Captain addresses us...'. The version shown here was included in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).
Item Date1920 - 1922
Creation placeEngland
File typeImage
Item sourceLeaf
Item mediumPaper
Writing mediumTypescript
ContentPoem
Collection IDPapers of Ivor Gurney 16.64
Repository nameThe Ivor Gurney Archive
Repository address
Gloucestershire Archives
Clarence Row, Alvin Street
Gloucester
GL1 3DW
UK
Repository URLhttp://www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives
CataloguerAlisa Miller
FilenameIG-16-64.jpg
Reference URLhttp://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/item/6239