Author: Eleanor M. RawlingPublisher: History Press
ISBN: 9780752453538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Exploring the poetry and place of Gloucestershire
Dweller in Shadows
Author: Kate KennedyPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691212783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
"Originally a student of music, [Gurney] took up poetry in the trenches of the First World War, and was working on what would be his first volume of verse when, in 1917, he suffered wounds to the shoulder; and it was just before publication of this volume, Severn & Somme, that he was gassed at Passchendaele. After his return to Britain he resumed his musical studies, ... and quickly found outlets for his compositions. There is some debate about whether or not his subsequent mental illness was a consequence of the horrors and sufferings of the war; but mental illness marked the rest of his life, and indeed from about 1922 until his death he was institutionalised ... He nevertheless continued to produce poems and musical compositions in prolific fashion, and his works in both areas are read and performed, respectively, to this day"--
War's Embers, And Other Verses
Author: Ivor GurneyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387090684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Severn & Somme
Author: Ivor GurneyPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015526051
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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Author: Ivor GurneyBest Poems
Author: Ivor GurneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Best Poems consists of fair copies Gurney made, with few alterations. The Book of Five Makings is more a working draft, with recastings of the same poems, revealing the process by which he brought his art to completion. Of the 116 poems in this double volume, fewer than a quarter are previously collected. In his introduction R.K.R. Thornton, Professor of English at the University of Birmingham and editor of Gurney's poems and collected letters, sets the books in context. Annotations give readers a clear picture of the books as Gurney wanted them to be.
Author: Ivor GurneySelected Poems of Ivor Gurney
Author: Ivor GurneyPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The last few years have seen the rise of Ivor Gurney as one of the finest World War I poets. The 1982 publication of the Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney helped to establish him as a major literary figure, as it brought together an abundance of his work, inspired by his native Gloucestershire, the war, and his personal descent into madness after World War I. This collection of poems, published in the centenary of Gurney's birth, provides a selection of his most successful pieces.
Stars in a Dark Night
Author: Ivor GurneyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780750934671
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This collection of letters written by Ivor Gurney whilst on the Western Front shows that, although the facts of his life are undeniably tragic, the relationship he forged with his family was loving.
The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney
Author: Michael HurdPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571281052
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
First published in 1978 The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney is a moving and extraordinary account of a tragic genius penned by the composer Michael Hurd. Born in Gloucester in 1890 Ivor Gurney began writing songs and poems in his teens, taking his inspiration from the Severn Valley countryside where he grew up. Sent to the Western Front during the First World War Gurney experienced desolation and horror that made a profound impression on him. He ended his days in an asylum, but at his death in 1937 he was beginning to be acknowledged as one of England's finest composers. Still, it took several more decades for his work as a war poet to be fully appreciated. 'Hurd compresses into a taut, sympathetic outline the initial optimism and later torment of Gurney's ill-starred life... distinguished by its crisp use of poetic extracts.' PN Review
