The Making of a Poet: A Scholarly Edition of Ivor Gurney's Poetry, 1907 to Armistice 1918
Lancaster, Philip George
Date: 18 December 2012
Thesis or dissertation
Publisher
University of Exeter
Degree Title
PhD in English
Abstract
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was equally gifted as a poet and a composer. While a very
small number of pieces of juvenilia survive, arising from his passion for and
immersion in literature, he began to write poetry following his enlistment as a soldier
in the First World War.
In this thesis I have prepared an edition of all of Gurney’s ...
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) was equally gifted as a poet and a composer. While a very
small number of pieces of juvenilia survive, arising from his passion for and
immersion in literature, he began to write poetry following his enlistment as a soldier
in the First World War.
In this thesis I have prepared an edition of all of Gurney’s poetry from its beginnings
until the Armistice on 11 November 1918. The edition of over two hundred poems
incorporates 59 poems and fragments that have not previously been published. I have
sought to present this body of poetry in chronological order, and with extensive
textual notes and commentary, to chart the development of poems through all stages
of draft to fnal poem. This has been made possible by an unprecedented detailed
analysis of all Gurney’s manuscripts and a wholesale reorganisation of that extensive
collection.
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