Dweller in Shadows A Life of Ivor Gurney 1st Edition by Kate Kennedy 0691218544 9780691218540

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• ISBN 10: 0691218544
• ISBN 13: 9780691218540
• Author: Kate

The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum Ivor Gurney (1890–1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such as “Sleep.” Yet his life was shadowed by the trauma of the war and mental illness, and he spent his last fifteen years confined to a mental asylum. In Dweller in Shadows, Kate Kennedy presents the first comprehensive biography of this extraordinary and misunderstood artist. A promising student at the Royal College of Music, Gurney enlisted as a private with the Gloucestershire regiment in 1915 and spent two years in the trenches of the Western Front.

Table of contents:

Part I: Youth

1. ‘The Young Genius’

2. ‘A Waste of Spirit in an Expense of Shame’

Part II: War

3. ‘First Time In’

4. ‘Most Grand to Die’?

5. ‘The Fool at Arms’

6. ‘Even Such Is Time’

7. ‘A Touch of Gas’

Part III: Civilian

8. ‘To His Love’

9. ‘Rather Dead Than Mad’

10. ‘A Revenge of Joy’

11. ‘Despairing Work Is the Noblest Refuge’

12. ‘Below the Horizon’

Part IV: Asylum

13. ‘Praying for Death’

14. ‘Asylum-Made Lunatics’

15. ‘Dark Fire’

16. ‘The Patient Believes He Is Shakespeare’

17. ‘A Fear of Obscurity (My Own)’

18. Afterword

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