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IDENTITY

Old Bells

Literature

Work Summary

A poem centred on old bells and the memories or associations awakened by their sound. Bell-ringing connects the present with earlier lives, places and emotional experience.

Evidence Summary

The poem is embedded among devotional and consolatory passages.

No artistic connection stated.

CONTEXT

Author / Source

Guy Roslyn (Joshua Hatton)

Work

Old Bells

Years / Period

26 Feb 1877

Van Gogh Relation

Quoted / Copied, Editorially Identified

EVIDENCE

Key Quotation

CONNECTIONS

Evidence Trail

26 Feb 1877 — Letter 103

Editorially Identified · Copied / adapted

Van Gogh copies/adapts the opening lines; editors identify the source as Old Bells.

Response: The poem is embedded among devotional and consolatory passages.

Connection: No artistic connection stated.

Related Research Nodes

Study Subject

Themes

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