10.5287/BODLEIAN8UHT.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
Riez Bailleul ['...in blue tea-time']
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
1920-01-01/1922-12-31
2011-11-30 23:43:34.835673
2011
ww1-7195
Notebook
Manuscript in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand. Note on top of page reads 'while 'asking' for death. / electrical'. This draft of the poem was included in in P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004). Another typescript and draft of the poem survives and was included in Leonard Clark's edition of Gurney's poems in 1973. From a pink mottled hard-cover exercise book. The inside front cover is inscribed 'Music to Miss C. Rogers...Poetry to Professor Saintsbury / Bath'. The inside back cover is inscribed 'Instead of a home / I require death'.