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Ivor Gurney

    Ivor Gurney fu un compositore e autore la cui opera si addentra in profondi paesaggi emotivi e psicologici. La sua formazione musicale iniziale pose le basi per un talento notevole, sebbene il suo percorso artistico fosse spesso segnato da lotte interiori. La poesia di Gurney, forgiata nel crogiolo della Prima Guerra Mondiale, possiede un'onestà cruda e una sensibilità toccante, catturando sia la sofferenza personale che la più ampia esperienza umana. La sua prosa, proprio come la sua musica, è alle prese con la tensione tra intensità creativa e una psiche fragile, rendendolo una figura letteraria unica e toccante.

    Waddesdon's Golden Years 1874-1925
    The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry - Second Edition
    War's Embers, And Other Verses
    • War's Embers, And Other Verses

      in large print

      • 100pagine
      • 4 ore di lettura

      The book is a reproduction of a historical work, published by Megali, a house dedicated to producing large print editions. This initiative aims to enhance accessibility for readers with impaired vision, ensuring that important historical texts are available to a wider audience.

      War's Embers, And Other Verses2023
    • This fine collection brings together a comprehensive selection, and in his informative introduction Jon Silkin traces the changing mood of the poets - from patriotism through anger and compassion to an active desire for social change. The work of Sassoon, Owen, Blunden and Rosenberg is well represented, but also included are less familiar war poets, such as Hardy and Lawrence, war poems written by women poets and translations of verse from Germany, France, Italy and Russia. The shattering, ironic realism, tenderness and regret reflected in these poems encompass the waste and violence war.

      The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry - Second Edition1989