Ivor Gurney's Gloucestershire - 9780752453538

Ivor Gurney's GloucestershireExploring Poetry and Place\nAuthor(s): Eleanor M Rawling, R K R Thornton\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The History Press Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The History Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9780752453538, 978-0752453538\nSynopsis\nIvor Gurney is perhaps best known as a musician and First World War poet but he also wrote vividly and prolifically about his native Gloucestershire, finding inspiration and joy in walking the countryside and expressing its different moods. This book explores the particular Gloucestershire landscapes the Cotswolds, the Severn Meadows and the city of Gloucester that stimulated his creativity in poetry and music, but the relationship went much deeper. Gurney became increasingly dependent on being-in these Gloucestershire places as the source of his identity and well-being. Confined to a mental asylum in Kent for the last fifteen years of his life, he still drew on his memories of Gloucestershire, but it was a poetry of absence and los.