Like Buttermilk from a Jug
Oliver Soden: Ivor Gurney’s Groove, 22 September 2022
Dweller in Shadows: A Life of Ivor Gurney
by Kate Kennedy.
Princeton, 488 pp., £28, June 2021,978 0 691 21278 4 Show More
by Kate Kennedy.
Princeton, 488 pp., £28, June 2021,
“... models,’ she writes in this new biography, ‘are Renaissance figures such as John Dowland and Thomas Campion.’ (She might have looked sideways to Noël Coward, Bob Dylan or Cole Porter; to John Cage’s poetry, Ezra Pound’s operas, the compositions of Christopher Fry or Anthony Burgess.) One of the aims of her study is to rescue Gurney’s later work ... ”