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Dweller in Shadows

Autor Kate Kennedy
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 13 iul 2021
"Originally a student of music, [Gurney] took up poetry in the trenches of the First World War, and was working on what would be his first volume of verse when, in 1917, he suffered wounds to the shoulder; and it was just before publication of this volume, Severn & Somme, that he was gassed at Passchendaele. After his return to Britain he resumed his musical studies, ... and quickly found outlets for his compositions. There is some debate about whether or not his subsequent mental illness was a consequence of the horrors and sufferings of the war; but mental illness marked the rest of his life, and indeed from about 1922 until his death he was institutionalised ... He nevertheless continued to produce poems and musical compositions in prolific fashion, and his works in both areas are read and performed, respectively, to this day"--
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780691212784
ISBN-10: 0691212783
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 158 x 234 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.93 kg
Editura: Princeton University Press

Notă biografică

Kate Kennedy, a writer and broadcaster, is Co-Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, a Supernumerary Fellow in Music and English at Wolfson College, Oxford, and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has published widely on early twentieth-century music and literature, and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3