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| Author | : Michael Hurd |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2008-05 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780571242016 |
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
| Author | : Kate Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2021-07-13 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0691212783 |
"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"--
| Author | : Michael Hurd |
| Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2011-11-17 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0571281052 |
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
| Author | : Pamela Blevins |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1843834219 |
Insightful account of the life and works of two of the most important figures in twentieth-century British cultural life.
| Author | : Peter Barham |
| Publisher | : Yale University Press |
| Total Pages | : 480 |
| Release | : 2007-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780300125115 |
This is a poignant, sometimes ribald, history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties of World War One.
| Author | : Ivor Gurney |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : English poetry |
| ISBN | : |
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 | : Alfred Edward Housman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1908 |
| Genre | : Cities and towns |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Robert Edric |
| Publisher | : Random House |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biographical fiction |
| ISBN | : 0552774189 |
It is December 1922. Ex-soldier, poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, suffering from increasingly frequent and deepening bouts of paranoid schizophrenia is transferred to the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford. Neglected by the military and his own family, and abandoned by all but a notable handful of his friends, Gurney begins a descent into the madness and oblivion which he believes has long been waiting to claim him. Yet following his arrival at Dartford, there are still those who continue to believe in Gurney’s capabilities. It seems that he might find some calm and ease in his life, and thus achieve the status so many consider him capable of achieving..
| Author | : Ronald Carter |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : English language |
| ISBN | : 9780415243179 |
This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.
| Author | : Andrew Hodgson |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2019-12-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3030309711 |
This book attends to four poets – John Clare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Edward Thomas, and Ivor Gurney – whose poems are remarkable for their personal directness and distinctiveness. It shows how their writing conveys a potently individual quality of feeling, perception, and experience: each poet responds with unusual commitment to the Romantic idea of art as personal expression. The book looks closely at the vitality and intricacy of the poets’ language, the personal candour of their subject matter, and their sense, obdurate but persuasive, of their own strangeness. As it traces the tact and imagination with which each of the four writers realises the possibilities of individualism in lyric, it affirms the vibrancy of their contributions to nineteenth and twentieth-century poetry.
