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	Ivor Gurney
		Ivor Gurney, the son of a tailor, was born in Gloucester on 28th August, 1890.
		Gurney showed considerable talent as a composer and poet but in May 1913 he was diagnosed as suffering from dyspepsia and was sent home to Gloucester to recuperate.
		Gurney suffered from a severe manic depressive illness and after several failed attempts at suicide was sent to a mental asylum in Gloucester.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWgurney.htm (768 words)

	Ivor Gurney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ivor Gurney (August 28, 1890 - December 26, 1937) was an English composer and poet.
		Gurney suffered from bipolar illness, which showed symptoms during his mid-teens and led to his first documented breakdown in 1913, followed by a major breakdown in the spring of 1918 while he was still in uniform.
		Gurney died of tuberculosis in the City of London Mental Hospital on 26 December 1937 at the age of 47.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ivor_Gurney (668 words)

	Counter-Attack: Biography of Ivor Gurney by Michele Fry
		Ivor Gurney was born in 1890, in Gloucester (England), the son of a tailor.
		Gurney was an unpredictable, unteachable and dazzling pupil.
		Gurney will be remembered most as a composer, but since Edmund Blunden's 1954 edition of Gurney's poems, his stock as a poet, both of the War and of his native Gloucestershire, has continued to rise.
	www.sassoonery.demon.co.uk /gurney.htm (635 words)

	Ivor Gurney and the Question of Syphilis MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gurney was not demented, a characteristic of neurosyphilis.
		She knew, for example, that Gurney could be physically violent when in a temper and once cited an account of Gurney attacking another boy, knocking him down and breaking his spectacles because he "was annoyed by some things" the other boy had said.
		Gurney was already suffering from hallucinations in 1918 and we know that such episodes are symptomatic of manic-depressive illness as it progresses through its complex manifestations.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /classrev/2002/Jun02/Gurney_syphilis.htm (3818 words)

	Ivor Gurney and Gerard Manley Hopkins
		Since we know fairly precisely what prompted Gurney to write this poem and under what conditions he wrote it, we may well be inclined to question its similarity to poems by Hopkins such as `No Worst, There Is None,' of which the motive behind the emotion and the circumstances of composition remain obscure.
		Likewise Gurney's rhythms: although doubtless more regular (and more taut) than Whitman's are commonly supposed to be, the overall movement of Gurney's lines, like the body of the lock keeper, is `lank'; Hopkins's farrier, and his ploughman even more so, are muscle-bound by comparison.
		For Gurney is not interested in the `inscape' of the lock keeper except insofar as it is flexible enough to comprehend a multitude of `inscapes.' This flexibility, this comprehensiveness?-this tentaculousness - is Whitmanian, not Hopkinsian.
	www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org /studies/ivor_gurney.html (1935 words)

	First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Ivor Gurney
		The Gloucestershire poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was born on 28 August 1890 and educated as a chorister at King's School, Gloucester, where he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music.
		At the outbreak of the war he volunteered as a private for the Gloucester Regiment, although he was initially rejected on account of poor eyesight; he finally succeeded in joining the 2nd and 5th Gloucestershire Regiment in 1915.
		Ivor Gurney, who never married, died on 26 December 1937 at the City of London mental hospital.
	www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/gurney.htm (471 words)

	Ivor Gurney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A poet and musician, Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) enlisted in 1915 after first being rejected because of his eyesight.
		Much of Gurney's war poetry is contained in Severn and Somme (1917), and War's Embers (1919) -- the much anthologized "To His Love" coming from the latter.
		In 1922, Ivor Gurney was confined to a mental hospital, where he remained until his death in 1937.
	people.colgate.edu /kblock/ivor_gurney.htm (110 words)

	Ivor Gurney
		This programme of the songs, poetry and letters of Ivor Gurney brings to life an undoubted genius of unbounding enthusiasm, with a love of his friends and of his beloved Gloucestershire which so colours his work.
		Ivor Gurney was born in Gloucester in 1890, the eldest son of a tailor.
		This celebration of Ivor Gurney includes reminiscences and letters, from his immediate family in Gloucester and from friends literary and musical, as well as the poetry and songs, some of which have hitherto been unseen and unpublished.
	www.ianpartridge.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Gurney.html (860 words)

	Ivor Gurney at Old Poetry
		Ivor Gurney was born in Gloucester, England on August 28, 1890.
		Gurney was regarded as one of the most promising men of his generation, both in music and poetry.
		However, in 1922, the manic depressive illness that had plagued him from early adulthood prompted his family to have him declared insane.
	oldpoetry.com /oauthor/show/Ivor_Gurney (387 words)

	Independent Online Edition > Features (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gurney has always been respected as a war poet, but few of the 300 or so songs that he composed are well known.
		Ian Venables, chairman of the Ivor Gurney Society and a respected song composer himself - four of his songs appear on Severn and Somme, along with others by Herbert Howells, Christian Wilson and the late John Sanders - is also proud to be part of the project.
		"Gurney was one of the first, possibly the first, to produce real English 'art songs', in the sense not just of providing an accompaniment to words, but of reacting to them by word painting, something far greater than merely evoking mood," he says.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /music/features/article343694.ece (938 words)

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		Indeed, Richard F. Giles, who edited the monograph in which Moore's essay appeared, pronounced Gurney the one poet `who most fully assimilated the influence of Hopkins,' inasmuch as `Gurney's poems are sometimes original within the bonds [sic] of the Hopkins presence, a feat that most other twentieth-century poets who attempted to imitate Hopkins found impossible'.
		For Giles as well as for Davie, it was Gurney's powers of assimilation, not `[t]he possible debt of Gurney to Hopkins,' that commanded the most attention.
		Gurney's importance in the larger history of poetry will always be relatively slight; his work is too singular, febrile, disorderly, and experimental (and too notoriously that of a madman) for either the popular or the scholarly taste.
	www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org /studies/ivor_gurley.html (2147 words)

	Ann Sharman
		Ivor Gurney was born on 28th August, 1890, at 3 Queen Street Gloucester, the second child of a tailor, David Gurney and his wife Florence.
		Ivor struck up an easy friendship with the entire family of adults and four children, corresponding with them throughout the war years, an archive of correspondence which was remarkably saved and later published.
		The poems of Ivor Gurney mostly have a unique blend of the sights and sounds, the soul of Gloucestershire, with his highly personal observations of the facets of the war.
	www.oucs.ox.ac.uk /ltg/projects/jtap/dce/sharman/gurney.html (1563 words)

	Amazon.ca: Severn Meadows Songs By Ivor: Music: Ivor Gurney,Paul Agnew,Julius Drake (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gurney: Severn Meadows and Other Songs is an admirable addition to Hyperion's previous championing of the haunting, haunted songs of Ivor Gurney, quantities of them written during his long, slow descent into insanity after the Great War.
		Unfortunately Severn Meadows Songs by Ivor Gurney is a disappointing recording, particularly since it is the first CD devoted entirely to Gurney's music.
		Gurney was a master of the song setting but this release does not do his splendid contributions to song literature justice.
	www.amazon.ca /Severn-Meadows-Songs-Ivor-Gurney/dp/B00005MGAF (637 words)

	Writers and their Work: Ivor Gurney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ivor Gurney does not enjoy the reputation of Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and some other first world war poets; justifiably in my view, in spite of John Lucas's enthusiasm for his work.
		Gurney, of course, survived the war and lived to be 48, the last 16 of his years being spent in a lunatic asylum.
		If you like Gurney's work or if you want to get to know it, John Lucas is an admirable commentator and guide: readable, informed, enthusiastic, scholarly and brief.
	www.natfhe.org.uk /print.php?id=1001 (261 words)

	MP3.com Search Results for: [ ivor ]
		Ivor Raymonde is best remembered as the co-author and arranger of many of Dusty Springfield's biggest hits, including "I Only Want To Be With You," and as music director on her classic Philips Records albums.
		Ivor Lancellotti appeared on the musical scene in 1972, when Marisa Gata Mansa interpreted his "Estrada" on TV Tupi's University Festival.
		Ivor Arbiter was one of the enormous cast of characters who made a small but vital and enduring contribution to the saga of the Beatles, designing the band's iconic "dropped-T" logo.
	www.mp3.com /ivor (373 words)

	Ivor Gurney in Buckinghamshire
		Declined in l9l4 for military service on the grounds of defective eyesight, Gurney had already experienced the emotional ups and downs that were to dog his double career as composer and poet, and that led ultimately to the asylum.
		Gurney served as a signaller and -- unusually for war poets (Isaac Rosenberg was a rare fellow-exception) as a private at Ypres and the Somme, and was wounded and gassed.
		Gurney's own familiar hills were not Chilterns but Cotswolds, his familiar views not Downley, Deangarden and Desborough, but Maismore, May Hill and the Malverns.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2001/07/igbuck1.htm (405 words)

	Concert Review Ivor Gurney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The compositions which best exemplified this at the recital were "Ludlow and Teme" by Ivor Gurney (who has come rapidly to the fore of late), and "Nod" by Armstrong Gibbs.
		Gurney’s work, written about a year ago, is cast in the form of a song-cycle for tenor, string quartet and pianoforte.
		The words are drawn from Housman’s "Shropshire Lad." Ivor Gurney has been most successful in finding equivalent expression in his music for that peculiar mingling of the folk and lyric styles, which is so characteristic in Housman’s verse.
	www.musicweb-international.com /Scott/review_Ivor_Gurney.htm (531 words)

	Anthony Boden - Stars in a Dark Night: the Letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family
		Although the facts of Gurney’s life are undeniably tragic, he managed to find great enjoyment in his friendships.
		A permanent record of a critically acclaimed lecture on the life and work of dually-gifted poet and composer Ivor Gurney (1890-1937), given at St Mary de Lode Church, Gloucester, on 12th August 2004 as part of the Three Choirs Festival.
		The recording includes photographs and film of many of the people and places known to Gurney, as well as recordings of a selection of his songs and piano music.
	www.anthonyboden.co.uk /dark_night.html (389 words)

	Living Gloucester - Ivor Gurney
		Ivor Gurney is most famous for his poems.
		The music he wrote for his own, and other people's poems is now admired by people all over the world.
		Sadly when he was alive, Ivor's work never had the recognition that it has now.
	www.livinggloucester.co.uk /people/then/1800/gurney (120 words)

	Ivor Gurney in Buckinghamshire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During l920 Gurney returned first to Gloucester, where he sojourned with an aunt, and then London, although in June-July l921 -- his last weeks at the Royal College -- he could be found lodging at The Five Alls, in Stokenchurch, just above the ridge.
		His burning of midnight oil, nightwalking routine and prolific workload (he wrote the bulk of some 900 poems and 250 songs in the period l9l9-l922; the almost frenzied emergence of his F W Harvey cycle was typical) finally took its toll.
		In l922 he was relegated to a mental hospital, first in Gloucester and then at Dartford in Kent, close to what is now the M25, where he continued to write and compose longer than is often realised, and he died there of tuberculosis on Boxing Day, l937.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2001/07/fusing2.htm (289 words)

	Ivor Gurney - AOL Music
		Ivor Gurney, Great War poet and song composer known for his poetic novelty and uniquely sensitive musical response to poetry.
		His musical talents were recognised at an early age and, thanks to the...
		Download, listen and watch Ivor Gurney music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
	music.aol.com /artist/ivor-gurney/1115/main (126 words)

	Ivor Gurney
		Ivor Gurney, renowned poet of the first world war, lived in a house on what is now the A48 road near Minsterworth.
		Writing changed from the high-flown, complicated prose of the late nineteenth century to a grittier, realistic style, exemplified by writers such as Ivor Gurney.
		Writers explained to themselves and to the world the effects of war on individuals and on society, partly helping to heal the wounds wrought in war.
	www.fweb.org.uk /dean/deanhist/gurney.htm (456 words)

	Ivor Gurney on The Gloucestershire Portal
		Ivor Gurney is one of Gloucester's sons she can be proud of.
		Born the son of a Gloucester tailor in Queen street on August 28th 1890, had his musical ability noticed from an early age.
		Gurney started producing fine musical settings to the works of Houseman among others during this period, but unfortunately his behaviour began to deteriorate and he became isolated from his family and spent much of his time wandering the local countryside.
	www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk /gloucester/gurney.htm (414 words)

	Ivor Gurney - Poet-Composer - Ivor.Gurney.net - The New Comprehensive Website
		Books and Articles, Scores, Recordings, Gurney Bibliography Index
		Its Purpose, The Ivor Gurney Society, Why Gurney?
		Gurney Today, Friends of Gurney, A Call for Help, The Gurney Society, Perspectives on Gurney
	ivor.gurney.net (60 words)

	GWL: Study Guide: Ivor Gurney (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It is often said that there is a fine line between genius and insanity, and this would certainly seem to have been true of Ivor Gurney.
		Only after many years are Ivor Gurney’s gifts now being fully appreciated - and perhaps the most remarkable revelation of all is the man himself.
		Biography: A study of Ivor Gurney, looking at his life before, during, and after the war until his sad and unhappy death.
	www.greatwarliterature.co.uk /sg_0028_ig.html (303 words)

	Castle Classics Gurney, Ivor (British 1890-1937)
		I Gurney; R Vaughan Williams: Three song cycles to poems by A E Housman -; Adrian Thompson, tenor; Stephen Varcoe, baritone; The Delmé Quartet; Iain Burnside, piano
		Including GURNEY Preludes Nos 1-9 (2 versions of 9). Unpublished Pieces (premier recordings) - Despair; Sehnsucht (Longing); Song of the Summer Woods; The Sea; Nocturne in B; Nocturne in A; FERGUSON Sonata in F minor; Five Bagatelles
		I Gurney, et al: Severn &; Somme -; Roderick Williams, baritone; Susie Allan, piano
	shop.castleclassics.co.uk /acatalog/Gurney__Ivor.html (282 words)

	Ivor Gurney - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes By Ernest Casson, Ivor Gurney.
		Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Ivor Gurney, Herbert Howells, Sir Charles H.H. Parry, Roger Quilter, Charles Villiers Stanford, English Traditional, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Warlock
		George Butterworth, Ivor Gurney, John Ireland, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Warlock
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/gurney (649 words)

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