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    Ivor Gurney - A Poet A-Z
    Ivor Gurney - A Poet A-Z
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    Ivor Bertie Gurney was born in Gloucester on 28th August 1890. A chorister at Gloucester cathedral Ivor began to compose music at 14 before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy Of Music in 1911. Noted for his enormous potential he was equally thought by many to be un-teachable. His studies were interrupted by World War I and his enlistment with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was wounded in April 1917 and gassed a few months later. After his release from hospital he was posted to Seaton Delaval, a mining village in Northumberland. His first volume of poetry, Severn and Somme, being published in November 1917, followed by War's Embers in 1919. Unfortunately his life was blighted by bi-polar disorder which had developed from his mid teens and culminated in his first major breakdown whilst still in uniform in 1918. The trigger was a failed relationship with Annie Drummond. After the war he seemed to thrive for a while but the bi-polar return with increasing severity in 1922 to the point where we was declared insane. Although he continued to write poems and a few pieces of music he was to spend the next fifteen years of his life until his death in various mental hospitals. Ivor Gurney died on 26th December 1937.

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    Release dateSep 12, 2014
    ISBN9781783942190
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      Ivor Gurney - A Poet A-Z - Ivor Gurney

      Ivor Gurney – A Poet From A to Z

      Ivor Bertie Gurney was born in Gloucester on 28th August 1890.

      A chorister at Gloucester cathedral Ivor began to compose music at 14 before winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy Of Music in 1911.  Noted for his enormous potential he was equally thought by many to be un-teachable.  His studies were interrupted by World War I and his enlistment with the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was wounded in April 1917 and gassed a few months later. After his release from hospital he was posted to Seaton Delaval, a mining village in Northumberland. His first volume of poetry, Severn and Somme, being published in November 1917, followed by War's Embers in 1919. 

      Unfortunately his life was blighted by bi-polar disorder which had developed from his mid teens and culminated in his first major breakdown whilst still in uniform in 1918.  The trigger was a failed relationship with Annie Drummond.  After the war he seemed to thrive for a while but the bi-polar return with increasing severity in 1922 to the point where we was declared insane.  Although he continued to write poems and a few pieces of music he was to spend the next fifteen years of his life until his death in various mental hospitals.

      Ivor Gurney died on 26th December 1937.

      Index Of Poems

      A Wish

      Above Ashleworth

      Afterwards

      Apprentices

      April Gale

      Bach And The Sentry

      Ballad Of The Three Spectres

      Beauty

      Ben Johnson

      Billet

      Blighty

      Brown Earth Look

      By Severn

      Canadians

      Common Things

      Crucifix Corner

      Cut Flowers

      Daily

      Darkness Has Cheating Swiftness

      Defiance

      Drachms + Scruples

      Encounters

      Equal Mistress

      First Time In

      Generations (The Ploughed Field And The Fallow field)

      Generations (There Are Mummers Yet On Cotswold)

      Had I A Song

      Half Dead

      Hedger

      Hedges

      Kettle Song

      Kilns

      La Gorgues

      Larches

      Laventie

      Leckhampton Chimney Has Fallen Down

      London Dawn

      Longford Dawns

      Lovely Playthings

      Midnight

      Mist on Meadows

      Moments

      My Heart Makes Songs On Lonely Roads

      Near Vermand

      New Year's Eve

      Of Cruelty

      Of Grandcourt

      Old thought

      Old Times

      On Somme

      Pain

      Personages

      Photographs (To Two Scots Lads)

      Poem For The End

      Rainy Midnight

      Requiem

      Robecq Again

      Saturday's Comings

      Smudgy Dawn

      Snow

      Soft Rain Beats Upon My Windows

      Song

      Song And Pain

      Song Of Pain And Beauty: To M.M.S

      Sonnet. September 1922

      Stars Sliding

      Strange Hells

      Strange Service

      The Bohemians

      The Change

      The Cloud

      The Comparison

      The Escape

      The Garden

      The High Hills Have A bitterness

      The Hoe Scrapes Earth

      The Incense Bearers

      The Lock Keeper

      The Love Song

      The Miracles

      The Road

      The Silent One

      The Soaking

      The Songs I Had

      The Square Thing

      The Stone Breaker

      The Target

      The Touchstone – Watching Malvern

      The Valley

      There Is A Man

      Thoughts Of New England

      Time To Come

      To Certain Comrades (E.S. and J.H.)

      To England - A Note

      To God

      To His Love

      To The Poet Before Battle

      To The Prussians Of England

      Tobacco

      Toussaints (ToJ.W.H.)

      Turmut-Hoeing

      Up There

      Walking Song

      Water Colours

      Western Sky-Look

      What Evil Coil

      When From The Curve Of The Wood's Edge

      When I Am Covered

      When March blows

      When The Body Might Be Free

      Yesterday Lost

      A Wish

      I would hope for the children of West Ham

      Wooden-frame houses, square with some-sort stuff

      Crammed in to keep the wind away that's rough,

      And rain, in summer cool, in cold comfortable enough.

      Easily destroyed — and pretty enough, and yet tough

      Instead of brick and mortar tiled houses of no

      Special appearance or attractive show.

      Not crowded together, but with a plot of land

      Where one might play and dig, and use spade or the hand

      In managing or shaping earth in such forms,

      As please the sunny mind or keep out of harms

      The mind that's always good when let go its way

      (I think) so there's work enough in a happy day.

      Not brick and tile, but wood, thatch, walls of mixed

      Material, and buildings in plain strength fixed.

      Likeable, good to live in, easily pulled

      Down, and in winter with warm ruddy light filled —

      In summer with cool air; O better this sort of shelter —

      And villages on the land set helter-skelter

      On hillsides, dotted on plains; that the too exact

      Straight streets of modern times that strait and strict

      And formal keep man's spirit within bounds,

      Where too dull duties keep in monotonous rounds

      These villages to make for these towns of today —

      O Haste — and England shall

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