10.5287/BODLEIAN2KTY.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Drifting Leaves
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1918-07-01/1918-07-31
2011-11-30 23:47:05.603306
2011
ww1-7317
Notebook
Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. This appears to be the only full draft of the poem. Inscribed 'Warrington July 1918'. Included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at Lord Derby's War Hospital being treated for shell shock. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.