Severn and Somme
Author: first_name: Ivor
last_name: Gurney
Language: English
Year: 1917

The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area around the River Somme in northern France with the natural beauty of the valley of the River Severn in his native Gloucestershire. - Summary by Alan Mapstone