Dweller in Shadows

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  • Dweller in Shadows Book Detail

  • Author : Kate Kennedy
  • Release Date : 2021-07-13
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Genre : Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 512
  • ISBN 13 : 0691212783
  • File Size : 54,54 MB

Dweller in Shadows by Kate Kennedy PDF Summary

Book Description: "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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