10.5287/BODLEIANDPYN.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University Of Oxford
University Of Oxford
First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The Lock-Keeper
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
Dataset
2011-11-30 23:47:08.126310
2011-11-30 23:47:08.787954
2011
ww1-7319
Notebook
Manuscript in pencil in Ivor Gurney's hand. Exists in various drafts. A shorter poem with the same title, inscribed 'To the memory of Edward Thomas', was included in 'War's Embers' (1919). Written while Gurney was a patient at Middlesex War Hospital. Found in a burgundy notebook containing fair copies of poems made by Gurney. It appears to have been compiled primarily in 1918.