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Gurney, Ivor (Bertie)
Gurney, Ivor (Bertie), (1890–1937), poet and composer, published two volumes of verse, Severn and Somme (1917) and War's Embers (1919). During the First World War he served on the Western Front and was wounded and gassed. After the war he became increasingly unsettled and was committed to a mental institution in 1922, spending the rest of his life in care. In these later years he composed poetry of growing individuality. Blunden made a selection of his post-1919 poems, published 1954, and Leonard Clark published a larger selection in 1973. Interest in his verse—with its memories of the war, its evocations of Gloucestershire, and descriptions of his own mental state—continued to grow, and his Collected Poems, edited and with an introduction by P. J. Kavanagh, appeared in 1982.
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gurney, Ivor (Bertie)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gurney, Ivor (Bertie)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-GurneyIvorBertie.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gurney, Ivor (Bertie)." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-GurneyIvorBertie.html |
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Gurney, Ivor
Gurney, Ivor (b Gloucester, 1890; d Dartford, 1937). Eng. composer, organist, and poet. Ass. org. Gloucester Cath. 1906–11. Joined army 1915, gassed at Passchendaele 1917. Wrote poetry, setting several of his own poems to mus. as well as poetry by Housman, etc. Song-cycles, of touching beauty and promise, incl. Ludlow and Teme, for ten., str. qt., and pf., and The Western Playland for bar., str. qt., and pf. Other songs incl. Desire in Spring, Sleep, In Flanders, and Severn Meadows. Returned to RCM 1919 but declared insane 1922. In last years of his life various friends, incl. Marion Scott, Howells, Finzi, and Ferguson, prepared the best of his work for pub., but over 200 songs remain in MS, also 6 vn. sonatas, 5 str. qts., and A Gloucestershire Rhapsody for orch.
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Gurney, Ivor." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 1 Jun. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Gurney, Ivor." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-GurneyIvor.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Gurney, Ivor." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved June 01, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-GurneyIvor.html |
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