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By Michael Hurd

ISBN-10: 0192117521

ISBN-13: 9780192117526

ISBN-10: 0571242014

ISBN-13: 9780571242016

First released in 1978 The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney is a relocating and awesome account of a sad genius penned via the composer Michael Hurd. Born in Gloucester in 1890 Ivor Gurney all started writing songs and poems in his children, taking his suggestion from the Severn Valley nation-state the place he grew up. despatched to the Western entrance in the course of the First international warfare Gurney skilled desolation and horror that made a profound effect on him. He ended his days in an asylum, yet at his dying in 1937 he used to be commencing to be said as one in all England's best composers. nonetheless, it took numerous extra a long time for his paintings as a conflict poet to be totally appreciated.
'Hurd compresses right into a taut, sympathetic define the preliminary optimism and later torment of Gurney's ill-starred life... individual through its crisp use of poetic extracts.' PN Review

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