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IVOR GURNEY: COLLECTED LETTERS

by Ivor Gurney; R.K.R. Thornton

Published by The Mid Northumberland Arts Group. 1st. 1991

Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Composer, poet of the First World War, incurable psychiatric patient. After the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted as a private soldier with the Gloucester Regiment. It was during the war where he began to write poetry... These Collected Letters give the fullest picture yet available of the nature of this fascinating writer, who looks set to rank with the greatest English song-writers, and the finest poets of the First World War. Edited by R.K.R. Thornton. Black cloth boards, gilt title to spine. xxvi and 579 pages including index.

Boards clean. Text block a little grubby, minor foxing to top edge. Inscription in ink to half-title page. Black pictorial dustwrapper is lightly scuffed.

ISBN: 0904790657
Stock no. 1831183

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Contents

  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHRONOLOGY
  • BIOGRAPHIES
  • A NOTE ON THE TEXT
  • MAP OF GURNEY'S FRANCE
  • THE COLLECTED LETTERS
  • INDEX OF RECIPIENTS
  • INDEX

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