Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Great Regulars: So it is strange to think that

"Going Out at Dawn" is also the work of a man who never saw Gloucestershire again after 1922: Gurney had been committed to a mental asylum in September that year, and it was there that he wrote some of his most striking poetry.

Going Out at Dawn

from The Times Literary Supplement: Poem of the Week: Going Out at Dawn by Ivor Gurney

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