The Silent One

Typescript prepared by Marion Scott. Written while Gurney was either at Barnwood House asylum, Gloucester (September-December 1922) or Stone House, Dartford, Kent (the City of London Mental Hospital where Gurney stayed from December 1922 until his death). Manuscript drafts found in the notebook 'GA 45457' entitled 'Best Poems'. Other shorter drafts also exist in various notebooks. A version was included in the Edmund Blunden edition of Ivor Gurney's poems published in 1954 as well as the version published by Leonard Clark in 1973, as well as P.J. Kavanagh's 'Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems' (2004).该打字稿（Typescript）由玛丽昂·斯科特（Marion Scott）整理。本作创作于伊沃·格尼（Ivor Gurney）住院期间：其曾于1922年9月至12月入住格洛斯特郡（Gloucester）巴纳德伍德庄园精神病院（Barnwood House Asylum），后于1922年12月起入住肯特郡（Kent）达特福德（Dartford）的石屋（Stone House）——即伦敦市立精神病院（City of London Mental Hospital）——直至逝世。该手稿草稿收录于编号为"GA 45457"、题名《最佳诗作》（Best Poems）的笔记本中，另有若干短篇草稿散见于各类笔记本内。1954年由埃德蒙·布伦登（Edmund Blunden）编纂的伊沃·格尼诗集、1973年伦纳德·克拉克（Leonard Clark）刊行的格尼诗作版本，以及P.J.卡瓦纳（P.J. Kavanagh）2004年出版的《伊沃·格尼：诗集全集》（Ivor Gurney: Collected Poems）均收录了该作品的一个版本。