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Dweller in Shadows

A Life of Ivor Gurney

Kate Kennedy

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English
Princeton University Pres
15 October 2021
The first comprehensive biography of an extraordinary English poet and composer whose life was haunted by fighting in the First World War and, later, confinement in a mental asylum

Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) wrote some of the most anthologized poems of the First World War and composed some of the greatest works in the English song repertoire, such

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Imprint:   Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 235mm,  Width: 156mm, 
ISBN:   9780691212784
ISBN 10:   0691212783
Pages:   512
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Kate Kennedy, a writer and broadcaster, is the Associate Director of the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and a Research Fellow in Music and English at Wolfson College, Oxford. She has published widely on early twentieth-century music and literature, and is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 3. She lives near Oxford, England. Website drkatekennedy.com Twitter @DrKKennedy

Reviews for Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney

[A] fine, well-researched and intelligent biography . . . . This painstaking biography will do much to enhance his [Gurney] reputation. ---Simon Heffer, Literary Review


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