Born in Gloucester in 1890 Ivor Gurney began writing songs and
poems in his teens, taking his inspiration from the Severn Valley
countryside he grew up in. Sent to the Western Front during the
First World War Gurney experienced the desolation and horror of
war, which made a profound impression on him. At his death in 1937
he was beginning to be acknowledged as one of England's finest
composers but it took several more decades for his work as a war
poet to be fully appreciated.
The composer Michael Hurd - also a native of Gloucester -
explores the life of a man who was deeply affected by what he saw
in the trenches and who ended his days in a lunatic asylum.
Charting his life from childhood and family to student days in
London, where one of his tutors was Vaughan Williams, to his time
at the Front and his final disintegration into madness, Hurd
captures the essence of this exceptional man in a lively and
compelling narrative. First published in 1978 "The Ordeal of Ivor
Gurney" includes a wealth of previously unpublished material and is
a moving and extraordinary account of a tragic genius.
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