10.5287/bodleiandv5h.1
First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford
In Retreat
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
2011
2011-11-30 23:21:06.351551
2011-11-30 23:21:06.674717
Dataset
IG-4-156v-157r.jpg
Notebook
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http://ora.ouls.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A1d00eebb-8fed-46ad-8e38-45dbdb4b224c
This long poem is written in pen in Ivor Gurney's hand, in a notebook headed 'Poems to Old New England of Ivor Gurney', and is dedicated 'To Staten Island / in the name of Alan Seeger / Walt Whitman / Leo Count Tolstoy', with an explanatory note regarding each of these figures. These poems were written while Gurney was a patient at Stone House, Dartford, Kent, otherwise known as the City of London Mental Hospital.