Blenheim Oranges

Scope and Content

First line: Gone, gone again.

Written at Royal Artillery School, Handel Street, London W.C.

Poem 134 in R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p. 355.

Drafts:

(1) Manuscript of unknown origin, same version as (2)

(2) Typescript once owned by Mary Elizabeth Thomas (Thomas' mother)

(3) Bodleian (MS.Don.d.28)

First published in Edward Eastaway [Edward Thomas], Poems (1917).

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See R. George Thomas, The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas (1978), p.354 for variant drafts.