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By Michael Hurd

First released in 1978 The Ordeal of Ivor Gurney is a relocating and striking account of a sad genius penned via the composer Michael Hurd. Born in Gloucester in 1890 Ivor Gurney started writing songs and poems in his kids, taking his concept from the Severn Valley nation-state the place he grew up. despatched to the Western entrance through the First global warfare Gurney skilled desolation and horror that made a profound influence on him. He ended his days in an asylum, yet at his dying in 1937 he was once starting to be stated as one among England's most interesting composers. nonetheless, it took numerous extra a long time for his paintings as a warfare poet to be absolutely appreciated.
'Hurd compresses right into a taut, sympathetic define the preliminary optimism and later torment of Gurney's ill-starred life... amazing by way of its crisp use of poetic extracts.' PN Review

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