Ivor Gurney'S Gloucestershire Av Eleanor M Rawling

<p><strong>Ivor 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.</strong> 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 loss. This book contains a wealth of Gurney¿s poetry with many pieces being published here for the first time. Other features aim to clarify the poetry/place dialogue and include an illustrated colour map, in which Ivor <em>Gurney¿s Gl