Talk:Ivor Gurney

message: To list the Edric novel as a "resource" does a serious disservice to those seeking factual information on Ivor Gurney and misrepresents Gurney as a man and as an artist. Edric's novel In Zodiac Light is pure fiction so readers need to be aware that this book is highly misleading if they are interested in learning about Gurney's life. Edric appears not to have done any serious research and seems to be capitalizing on the growing popularity of Gurney to create his fiction.  In a BBC radio interview last year, Edric claimed that Gurney's medical records had been destroyed in the Blitz -- Gurney's medical records were not destroyed and are available at the Gurney Archive and also in London.  Further Edric stated that Gurney suffered from "psychopathic schizophrenia" which is as far wrong as one can get with describing Gurney's illness. The unfortunate part of this statement is that it implies that Gurney was a psychopath and thus a very dangerous man. He was not.  Edric quotes a poem "In Flaxley Wood" and implies that it is by Gurney and was published in the London Mercury in 1921 -- it contains the line "in Zodiac wood", the title of the book.  There is no such poem in the Gurney Archive nor was such a poem published in the London Mercury. Novels about real people should not be listed as a resource! OwenBrooke (talk) 12:14, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Questionable source

message: Gurney was a poet not just a "war poet". This reference should be corrected because it is too limiting in his overall achievement as a poet. Some of his best poetry came from his asylum years.  
Also, Stanford might have found Gurney "unteachable" but it is more likely that Stanford was not the right teacher for him.  Vaughan Williams came away from his Stanford experience feeling that he was unteachable.  
This entry needs more information about Gurney's music and his poetry, more detail in general. 
OwenBrooke (talk) 11:09, 4 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Poet

message: This source provides a list of nineteen songs based on the poems by Edward Thomas . They are: The Penny Whistle (1918); Sowing (1918); Lights Out (1919); To-day I think [aka 'Scents'] (1919); Bright Clouds (1920); Snow (1921); The cherry trees bend over (1921); *The Bridge (1921); *The Gallows (1921); Cock-crow (1921); *Adlestrop (1921); *The Owl (1921); *The Mill-Pond (1921); *In Memoriam (1921); *Out in the Dark (1921 rev. 1925); *It Rains (c.1921-2); Will you come? (1922); *Words (1925); The Trumpet (1925) (* = unpublished). I would add this a reference im the article, but it's from blogspot.co.uk. Perhaps a WP:RS source exists? Martinevans123 (talk) 12:33, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Songs of [[Edward Thomas (poet)|Edward Thomas]]' poems 

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