At war
Iain McGilchrist, 25 January 1990
The Faber Book of Fevers and Frets
edited by D.J. Enright.
Faber, 364 pp., £12.99, November 1989,0 574 15095 1 Show More
edited by D.J. Enright.
Faber, 364 pp., £12.99, November 1989,
“... to ruin, Whose friend was God, but God swore not to aid me! – and the, to me, unknown poem by Ivor Gurney, addressed to God, which he wrote in Barnwood Mental Hospital, as much as a portrayal of what used to be done to patients in the name of sanity as of the insanity itself: Why have you made life so intolerable And set me between four walls, where ... ”