Ivor Gurney - Gurney Photo Album

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Gurney Photo Album

A Selection: Ivor Gurney's Early Years

Gurney: 1905 – War-1915 – High Wycombe in 1919– 1920 Stormy & Pensive – 1922 –
Asylum - Reads & Reflects – Twigworth – Grave
Severn River & Valley –Wainlode Hill –A Meadow –A Pond –Gloucester Cathedral
Severn & Cathedral – 1900s Eastgate Street – Eastgate in 1920s – Father’s Shop –His Parents& Siblings
Cheesman–Drummond–Finzi–Harvey–Howells–Scott
Gloucestershire Landmarks on Greeting Cards

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Ivor Gurney at the keyboard, September 1905.INDEX

Ivor Gurney prepares for War, c. 1915. INDEX

Gurney and Herbert Howells, c. 1915. [Blevins] INDEX

Gurney at High Wycombe in 1919.[Boden]INDEX

“What must High Wycombe hills look like now!
Great clouds of miraculous green,
green that looks alive
and gifted with a voice.”

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“It is a delectable land all this,
with changing soils in the valley
and a happy air of peace over all.”

Ivor Gurney at the Height of his Powers, c. 1920. [Blevins] INDEX

Ivor Gurney, c. 1920. [Blevins] INDEX

Song and Pain

Out of my sorrow
have I made these songs,
Out of my sorrow;

Though somewhat
of the making's eager pain
From Joy did borrow.

Someday, I trust,
God's purpose of Pain for me
Shall be complete,

And then -
to enter the House of Joy .....
Prepare, my feet.

Ivor Gurney, c. 1922. INDEX

Thanks to Pamela Blevins and Tony Boden for contributing several of the above photographs. Many of the rest come from Michael Hurd’s Ordeal of Ivor Gurney (Oxford University Press, 1978).

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