10.5287/bodleianxxt.2
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford
Home-Sickness / England the Mother (Sonnets 1917)
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
1917-11-01/1917-11-30
2011-11-30 23:20:52.744551
Dataset
IG-39537pp68-69.jpg
Folio
2
http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A1d00eebb-8fed-46ad-8e38-45dbdb4b224c
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 both 'Home-sickness', with numerous alterations in pen in Gurney's hand, and 'England the Mother' were written at Arras. These poems are part of a sonnet sequence dedicated to the English poet Rupert Brooke.