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Ivor Gurney (1890–1937)

Author of Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney

41+ Works 260 Members 2 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Works by Ivor Gurney

Collected Poems of Ivor Gurney (1982) 49 copies

Three poets of the First World War : Ivor Gurney, Isaac Rosenberg, Wilfred Owen (2011) 37 copies

War Letters (1983) 27 copies, 1 review

Ivor Gurney (Everyman's Poetry) (1997) 25 copies

Selected poems of Ivor Gurney (1990) 24 copies

Stars in a Dark Night (1986) 18 copies

Severn & Somme and War's Embers (1987) 9 copies

Best Poems and the Book of Five Makings (Fyfield Books) (1995) 8 copies

Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters (1991) 8 copies

The War Poets: A Selection of World War I Poetry (2nd Edition) (2011) — Contributor — 7 copies, 1 review

80 poems or so (1997) 4 copies

Gurney: Songs (The English Songs Series 19) (2009) 4 copies

Five Elizabethan Songs with piano ... [No. 1.] Under the greenwood tree. (W. Shakespeare.) [No. 2.] Orpheus. (W. Shakespeare.) [No. 3.] Spring. (T. Nashe.) ... Fletcher.) [No. 5.]… (1920) 3 copies

Severn Meadows: Songs by Ivor Gurney (2001) 3 copies

An Elegy for War - Bridge: Oration / Gurney: War Elegy & A Gloucestershire Rhapsody [sound recording] — Composer — 3 copies

Rewards of wonder : poems of Cotswold, France, London (2000) 2 copies

Elgar : Pageant of empire + Sea pictures, Op.37 + Gurney : Lights Out + Hurd : Shore leave [sound recording] (2010) — Composer — 2 copies

A first volume of ten songs (1938) 2 copies

20 Favourite Songs (1996) 2 copies

Sleep [LOW in G minor] 2 copies

To His Love 1 copy

Gurney & Vaughan Williams: A Shropshire Lad (2004) 1 copy

War's Embers, and Other Verses 1 copy

A Shropshire Lad - Three Song Cycles to poems of A.E. Housman - Vaughan Williams: On Wenlock Edge / Gurney: Ludlow and Teme; The Western Playland (1990) 1 copy

The Western Playland (and of Sorrow) 1 copy

The English Song Series 24: Sleep / Severn Meadows / Snow 1 copy

Piano Sonatas Nos. 1 and 3 - Five Preludes 1 copy

Piano Works 1 copy

Poems of Ivor Gurney 1890-1937 (1973) 1 copy

Eleven songs 1 copy

War's Embers and Other Verses (2021) 1 copy

Ne Retiens Que Cela (Poemes de Guerre) - Ivor Gurney (2016) 1 copy

The English Song Series 19: All night under the moon / By a bierside / On the downs / Lights out / Sleep 1 copy

BBC Music: An Elegy for War 1 copy

Love's Voice: Songs by Gurney, Ireland, Finzi, Venables 1 copy

English piano music 1 copy

The western playland (and of sorrow) : a song cycle to poems of A.E. Housman : for baritone and piano (1982) 1 copy

Preludes & nocturnes for piano solo 1 copy

A fourth volume of ten songs (1959) 1 copy

A second volume of ten songs (1938) 1 copy

Ivor Gurney Classics: Severn & Somme (2020) 1 copy

Associated Works

The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contributor — 1,472 copies, 9 reviews

World War One British Poets (1997) — Contributor — 438 copies, 4 reviews

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 4th Edition, Volume 2 (1979) — Contributor — 270 copies, 1 review

Poetry of the First World War: an anthology (2013) — Contributor — 167 copies, 1 review

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contributor — 79 copies

Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001 (2014) — Contributor — 53 copies, 1 review

Pity of War: Poems of the First World War (1985) — Contributor — 12 copies, 1 review

Poems in the waiting room : Issue 85 — Contributor — 1 copy

British Tone Poems, Vol. 1 [sound recording] (2014) — Composer — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Gurney, Ivor
Legal name: Gurney, Ivor Bertie
Birthdate: 1890-08-28
Date of death: 1937-12-26
Gender: male
Education: King's School, Gloucester
Royal College of Music
Occupations: composer
poet
soldier
Organizations: Gloucester Cathedral Choir
British Army (2nd/5th Gloucestershire Regiment)
Relationships: Harvey, F. W. (friend)
Howells, Herbert (friend)
Scott, Marion M. (friend)
Stanford, Charles Villiers (composition teacher)
Vaughan Williams, Ralph (composition teacher)
Cause of death: tuberculosis
Nationality: England
UK
Birthplace: Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Places of residence: London, England, UK
Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Place of death: Dartford, Kent, England, UK
Burial location: Twigworth, Gloucestershire, England, UK
Associated Place (for map): England, UK

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3 reviews

annejacinta 68 reviews

Ivor Gurney : War Letters by Ivor Gurney

A remarkable person , he writes with what seems like considerable openness about his daily life, in almost daily letters. Many are to Marion Scott, "Dear Friend" as he addresses her. He talks also of his poems and his longing for music and walking with friends amongst his local countryside in England. Very easy to read.

Oct 21, 2013 (Edited)

Jill.Mackin 378 reviews

The War Poets: A Selection of World War I Poetry by Rupert Brooke

Heartbreaking.

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First published in 1917 (1)

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Edward Thomas Contributor

Siegfried Sassoon Contributor

Steven Isserlis Artist

Ralph Vaughan Williams

R. K. R. Thornton Editor

P. J. Kavanagh Editor

George Walter Editor

Jane Potter Editor

Jon Stallworthy Editor

Martin Yates Conductor

Roderick Williams Baritone

BBC Concert Orchestra Orchestra

Statistics

Works: 41
Also by: 9
Members: 260
Popularity: #88,385
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 35
Languages: 1
Favorited: 1

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