Title: Ivor Gurney & Marion Scott : song of pain and beauty /
Authors: Blevins, Pamela.
Publisher: Boydell Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Gurney, Ivor,; Scott, Marion M.; Scott, Marion M.; Composers Great Britain Biography; Poets, English Biography; Musicologists Great Britain Biography.
Abstract: This dual biography of Ivor Gurney and Marion Scott tells the dramatic story of two geniuses who met at the Royal College of Music in 1911 and formed an unlikely partnership that illuminated and enriched the musical and literary worlds in which they moved.
Contents: Part I -- For various reasons, I don't think the whole story of Gurney's life, friends, misfortunes will ever be known -- Part II -- For after all, it is the artist's life which binds together the things of his creating, and neither of them is quite intelligible without the other -- Part III -- On our right? That's the road to Ypres. The less said about that road the better: no one goes down it for choice -- it's British now -- Part IV -- What's madness but nobility of soul / at odds with circumstances?