Book contents
- A History of World War One Poetry
- A History of World War One Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Nations and Voices
- Part III Poets
- Chapter 20 Non-Combatants
- Chapter 21 Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
- Chapter 22 Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)
- Chapter 23 Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) and Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
- Chapter 24 Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- Chapter 25 Mary Borden (1886–1968)
- Chapter 26 Georg Trakl (1887–1914)
- Chapter 27 Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)
- Chapter 28 Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
- Chapter 29 Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
- Chapter 30 David Jones (1895–1974)
- Part IV
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 28 - Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
from Part III - Poets
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 January 2023
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Book contents
- A History of World War One Poetry
- A History of World War One Poetry
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I Literary Contexts
- Part II Nations and Voices
- Part III Poets
- Chapter 20 Non-Combatants
- Chapter 21 Edward Thomas (1878–1917)
- Chapter 22 Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)
- Chapter 23 Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) and Edmund Blunden (1896–1974)
- Chapter 24 Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966)
- Chapter 25 Mary Borden (1886–1968)
- Chapter 26 Georg Trakl (1887–1914)
- Chapter 27 Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918)
- Chapter 28 Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)
- Chapter 29 Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)
- Chapter 30 David Jones (1895–1974)
- Part IV
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter provides an introduction to poet and composer Ivor Gurney’s responses to war, predominantly in poetry, but also in his music.It explores the strategies used by Gurney in the face of war; his sense of fate; his use of, and response to, place; his representation of the ordinary soldier; and his responses to the conflict through the lens of writings by Walt Whitman and Leo Tolstoi.
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- A History of World War One Poetry , pp. 457 - 472Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023