Timeline
Lifetime:
1890 -
1937
Passed: ≈
87 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Ivor Gurney
Books by Ivor Gurney
Severn and Somme
Poetry
Non-Fiction
War
Beauty
Nature
Loss
Patriotism
Landscape
Poetry
World war i
Desolation
War Poetry
Trauma
Somme
Gloucestershire
Ivor Gurney's "Severn and Somme" is a collection of poems written during his service in the First World War. Gurney, a native of Gloucestershire, contrasts the stark, desolate landscapes of the Somme battlefields with the familiar beauty of the Sever...
War's Embers
Poetry
War
War
Loss
Conflict
England
Emotion
Memory
Poetry
Trauma
Western Front
Aftermath
Mustard Gas
War's Embers is a collection of poems by English poet Ivor Gurney. The poems describe Gurney's experiences during the First World War, where he served on the Western Front and was wounded by a mustard gas attack. The poems explore the emotional toll...