Part C : Prose

C.1. ‘The Springs of Music’, The
Musical Quarterly, Volume 8, number 3 (July 1922), pp.319-323.

An essay on creativity and inspiration first published by a New
York-based journal. Reprinted in D.3, pp.119-125.

C.2. ‘Sir Charles Villiers Stanford by some
of his pupils’, Music and Letters, Volume V, number 3 (July 1924),
pp.193-207 (p.200).

Other contributors to this posthumous tribute to Gurney’s old teacher
at the RCM include Walford Davies, Vaughan Williams, Ireland, Bridge,
Howells and Thomas Dunhill.

Part D : Letters

D.1. ‘Ivor Gurney/War Letters: selected and
edited by R.K.R. Thornton’, P.N. Review, Volume 9, Number 3 (1982),
pp.28-34.

A selection of 16 letters written between February 1915 and November
1918 published to advertise the forthcoming D.2.
Printed in the same issue of P.N. Review as B.40.

D.2. Ivor Gurney, War Letters: A
Selection, Edited by R.K.R. Thornton (Ashington & Manchester:
Midnag & Carcanet, 1983).

A selection of Gurney’s wartime letters covering the period February
1915 to November 1918, with an introduction, chronology, notes on
correspondents and a black and white portrait. Reissued in paperback by
the Hogarth Press in 1984.

Reviews:
D.2.1. Marina Warner,’Gurney in the Ranks of Death’, The Times,
3 February 1983, p.46.
D.2.2. P.J. Kavanagh, ‘Ivor Gurney: War Letters’, The Spectator,
Volume 256, Number 8066 (12 February 1983), pp.22-23.
D.2.3. George Webb, ‘They shared a terrible war: Gentle man…and
officer’, The Gloucester Journal, 19 March 1983, p.4.
D.2.4. Kamini Knill,’Hamlet in Khaki’, The Times Educational
Supplement, Number 3485 (15 April 1983), p.32.
D.2.5. Mick Imlah,’The Artist’s Mind’, Poetry Review, Volume 73,
Number 2 (June 1983), pp.76-77.
D.2.6. A.H. Ashe, Durham University Journal, Volume 76, Number 2
(1984), p.308-311.
D.2.7. Stephen Banfield, ‘Ivor Gurney: War Letters’, Music and
Letters, Volume 66, Number 2 (1985), pp.128-129.
See also B.42.14 to B.42.18.

D.3. Anthony Boden Stars in a Dark
Night: The Letters of Ivor Gurney to the Chapman Family, with a
Foreword by Michael Hurd (Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1986).

A collection of letters written between February 1915 and late 1918,
with an introduction, postscript, photographs and facsimiles of
postcards and letters.

Reviews:
D.3.1. unsigned, ‘Tracking down the genius of Ivor Gurney’, The
Citizen, 1 May 1986, p.43.
D.3.2. ‘Family Bookshelf: Suggestions by J.H.C. Laker’, The Brecon
& Radnor Express and Powys County Times, 29 May 1986, p.4.
D.3.3. ‘Reviews by Drew Brodbeck & Brian Little’, Gloucester
and Avon Life, June 1986, p.51.
D.3.4. R.K.R. Thornton, ‘The Domestic Gurney’, P.N. Review,
Volume 13, Number 3 (1986), pp.73-74.
D.3.5. John Drinkwater, ‘Creative genius of rare quality’, The
Gloucestershire Echo, 22 November 1986, p.7.
D.3.6. Lawrence Sail, ‘Recent Verse’, Stand, Volume 28, Number 3
(1987), p.75.
D.3.7. Stephen Banfield, ‘Stars in a Dark Night’, Music and Letters,
Volume 68, Number 2 (April 1987), p.184.

D.4. ‘Another Day: February 23 1917 to
Marion Scott’, The Guardian, 23 February 1991, p.21.

An extract from p.138 of D.2, published as part of a
daily series.

D.5. Ivor Gurney: Collected Letters,
Edited by R.K.R. Thornton (Ashington & Manchester: Midnag &
Carcanet, 1991).

Gurney’s collected letters from summer 1912 to December 1922,
incorporating texts from D.2 and D.3
and new, previously unpublished material. It includes an introduction,
chronology, biographies of correspondents and a map of France.

Reviews:
D.5.1. Anthony Burgess, ‘Stuck in a muddy and musical landscape’, The
Independent, 8 February 1991, p.21.
D.5.2. Roderic Dunnett, ‘Songs of torment’, The Scotsman Weekend,
16 February 1991.
D.5.3. Donald Davie, ‘A private pact with the armies of Kaiser Bill’, The
Independent on Sunday, 17 February 1991.
D.5.4. Paul Fussell, ‘Run wild letters’, The Observer, 17
February 1991, p.58.
D.5.5. Nicholas Moseley, ‘Exquisite carnage’, The Sunday Telegraph,
17 February 1991.
D.5.6. D.J. Enright, ‘Swift radiant morning’, The London Review of
Books, Volume 13, Number 4 (21 February 1991), pp.12-13.
D.5.7. Roy Palmer, ‘Tragic poet soldiers on’, The Birmingham Post,
21 February 1991.
D.5.8. Alan Bold, ‘Tragedy of a man sadly “sane in his insanity”‘, The
Glasgow Herald, 23 February 1991, p.29.
D.5.9. P.J. Kavanagh, ‘Hardly a falute’, The Spectator,
Volume 266, Number 8484 (23 February 1991), p.32.
D.5.10. Robert Nye, ‘War;s truth, told from the asylum’, The
Guardian, 28 February 1991, p.25.
D.5.11. Roderic Dunnett, ‘Letters from a curious genius’, The
Financial Times, circa February 1991.
D.5.12. Tony Gould, ‘Unquiet on the western front’, The Sunday
Times Magazine, 3 March 1991, p.69.
D.5.13. Andrew Motion, ‘Kinetic Elegy’, The London Evening Standard,
14 March 1991.
D.5.14. John Lucas, ‘From Severn to Somme’, The Times Literary
Supplement, Number 4621 (25 October 1991), pp.3-5 and cover, which
features a portrait of Gurney and the headline ‘The Liberation of Ivor
Gurney’.
D.5.15. Trevor Hold, ‘Ordinary desirings’, The Musical Times,
Volume 133, Number 1788 (February 1992), pp.78-79.

D.6. R.K.R. Thornton, ‘New Howells-Gurney
Papers’, The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, Number 1 (August 1995),
pp.69-76.

A bibliographic description of a new deposition in the Gurney Archive
at Gloucester Library. It includes transcriptions of two letters and a
postcard sent by Gurney to Herbert Howells in 1918, a comic note
written by Gurney in 1919 and selections from letters to and about him,
as well as commentaries on manuscript poems and annotations made by him
in his books. All this material is previously unpublished.

D.7. ‘”My True Work Now”: An unpublished
Ivor Gurney Letter’, The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, Volume 3
(1997), pp.57-74.

A recently discovered letter to Marion Scott, written in July 1919 and
containing thirteen previously unpublished poems.

D.8. ‘An Unpublished Letter from Ivor
Gurney to Gervase Elwes’, edited by Valerie Langfield, The Ivor
Gurney Society Journal, Volume 5 (1999), pp.7-10.

Analysis and contextualisation of a previously unpublished and undated
letter by Gurney, dating it between the 16th and 22nd November 1920.

D.9. ‘A New Ivor Gurney Letter to Lascelles
Abercrombie’, edited by R.K.R. Thornton, The Ivor Gurney Society
Journal, Volume 6 (2000), pp.89-92.

Discussion of a newly-discovered letter by Gurney to the poet Lascelles
Abercrombie. A privately-owned letter from April 1919, which fills in
details of the relationship between the two poets.

See also E.39 which includes a
previously unpublished asylum letter.

Part E : Anthologies featuring Gurney’s work

E.1. The Muse in Arms: A Collection of
War Poems, for the most part written in the field of action, by Seamen,
Soldiers, and Flying Men who are serving, or have served in the Great
War, Edited and with an Introduction by E. B. Osborn (London: John
Murray, 1917).

Includes ‘Strange Service’ (p.14), ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ (p.30),
‘To Certain Comrades’ (p.130) and ‘Afterwards’ (p.152). The first
appearance of Gurney’s poems in book-form. See D.5,
p.412, for his opinion of the book as a whole.

E.2. unknown, edited by John Sampson
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1918).

Includes ‘The Fire Kindled’ and ‘Strange Service’. These details are
taken from a list at GA5.3e. in the Gurney Archive headed ‘Ivor Gurney
in Anthologies, &c’ and signed by Frank Sidgwick of Sidgwick &
Jackson. As he notes, ‘We do not always know the title of an anthology,
since applications are usually made to us before the title is decided’
and, as this is only a list of permissions granted, it may be that some
of its contents were never published.

E.3. Selections from Modern Poets,
Made by J. C. Squire (London: Martin Secker, 1921).

Includes ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ and ‘Song of Pain and Beauty’
(pp.249-250).

E.4. Second Selections from Modern Poets,
Made by J. C. Squire (London: Martin Secker, 1924).

Includes ‘Thoughts of New England’, ‘Smudgy Dawn’ and ‘Dawn’
(pp.215-222). ‘Dawn’ was originally printed as the second half of
‘Smudgy Dawn’ in B.24.

E.5. A Miscellany of Artistic Songs
(London: Boosey & Co., 1925).

Includes ‘Sleep’.

E.6. Fifty Modern English Songs.
Selected by and Published for The Society of English Singers
(London: Boosey & Co., [1925]).

Includes ‘I will go with my father a ploughing’ (p.79) and ‘Carol of
the Skiddaw Yowes’ (p.173).

E.7. [Omitted in TAB].

E.8. Selections from Modern Poets:
Complete Edition – First and Second Series, Made by J. C. Squire
(London: Martin Secker, 1927)

A single volume reprint of E.3 and E.4.

E.9. Great Poems of the English
Language. An Anthology of Verse in English from Chaucer to the moderns,
Edited by Wallace Alvin Briggs (New York: R.M. McBride & Co., 1927
& London: G.G. Harrap , 1928).

Includes ‘To the Poet Before Battle’.

E.10.
Fiery Grains: Thoughts and Sayings for Some Occasions, put
together by H.R.L. Sheppard and H.P. Marshall (London, New York,
Toronto: Longmans, Green & Co., 1928).

Includes ‘Song of Pain and Beauty’ (p.127). An anthology of devotional
and inspirational poetry and prose compiled by two senior clergymen.
Gurney’s poem is part of a section entitled ‘For Peace of Mind’.

E.11.
An Anthology of War Poems, Compiled by Frederick Brereton;
Introduction by Edmund Blunden (London: W. Collins, Sons & Co.
Ltd., 1930)

Includes ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ and ‘Song of Pain and Beauty’
(pp.82-83).

E.12.
Jewels of Song, Compiled by W.H. Davies (London: Jonathan Cape,
1930).

Includes ‘Song of Pain and Beauty’ (p.113). Reissued by the same
publishers in 1938 as An Anthology of Short Poems.

E.13.
The Mercury Book of Verse: Being a Selection of Poems published in
The London Mercury, 1919-1930, with an Introduction by Sir Henry
Newbolt (London: Macmillan & Co., 1931).

Includes ‘Tobacco’ and ‘Encounters’ (pp.130-131).

E.14.
Younger Poets of Today, Selected by J.C. Squire (London: Martin
Secker, 1932).

Includes ‘Encounters’ and ‘Tobacco’ (pp.219-220). Reissued by the same
publishers as Third Selections from Modern Poets in 1934.

E.15.
unknown, published by the London University Press in 1935.

Includes ‘Song of Pain and Beauty’. Another item noted in Frank
Sidgwick’s list of anthology republications noted in E.2.

E.16.
Landmarks: A Book of Topographical Verse For England and Wales,
Chosen by George Rostrevor Hamilton and John Arlott (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,1943).

Includes ‘The Fire Kindled’ (p.92). Gurney’s poem is included in the
section on Gloucestershire. Reissued in a revised version as E.44.

E.17.
Baritone Songs, Compiled, Edited and Arranged by Sydney Northcote
(London & New York: Boosey & Hawkes Ltd., 1950).

Includes ‘The Bonnie Earl of Murray’ (p.120).

E.18.
Tenor Songs, Compiled, Edited and Arranged by Sydney Northcote
(London & New York: Boosey & Hawkes, 1950).

Includes ‘Sleep’.

E.19.
Georgian Poets, Selected by Alan Pryce-Jones (London: Edward
Hulton, 1959).

Includes ‘Dawn’ (p.27). ‘Dawn’ is the text printed by J. C. Squire in
E.4 and E.8. Issued as part of Edward Hulton’s Pocket Poets series.

E.20.
Georgian Poetry, Selected and introduced by James Reeves
(Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1962).

Includes ‘Townshend’, ‘Robecq Again’ (pp.113-114) and a biographical
note (p.159).

E.21.
Men Who March Away: Poems of the First World War, Edited with an
Introduction by I. M. Parsons (London: Chatto & Windus, 1965).

Includes ‘The Silent One’ (p.60), ‘The Bohemians’ (p.76), ‘To His Love’
(p.153) and a biographical note (p.188).

E.22.
Poetry in English 1900-1930, Selected by John F. Sullivan (London:
Edward Arnold Ltd., 1965).

Includes ‘The Fire Kindled’, ‘The Bohemians’, ‘War Books’ and a short
biographical introduction (pp.93-95). Gurney’s poems are included in
the section of the book devoted to war poetry.

E.23.
Poetry of the First World War, Edited by Maurice Hussey (London:
Longmans, Green & Co. Ltd., 1967).

Includes ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ (p.x), ‘West Country’ (p.11),
‘Servitude’ (p.71), ‘The Target’ (p.71), ‘Dirge for Two Striplings’,
‘War Books’, ‘Ypres’, ‘Picture of Two Veterans’ and ‘When I Am Covered’
(pp.154-157). This anthology represents the first publication of ‘Dirge
for Two Striplings’, ‘Picture of Two Veterans’ and ‘Ypres’, reprinted
in B.49. ‘Picture of Two Veterans’ is also included in B.45.

E.24.
Sound of Battle, Edited by Leonard Clark (Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1969).

Includes ‘The Silent One’ (p.128).

E.25.
From Other Lands: Poetry that makes History live, Edited
by Al Hine (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1969).

Includes ‘Ypres’. Probably, like Hine’s other publications, intended
for children.

E.26.
1914-18 in Poetry, An anthology, Selected and edited by E.
L. Black (London: London University Press, 1970).

Includes ‘To His Love’ (p.88) and a biographical note (p.145). Reissued
under the Hodder & Stoughton Educational imprint in 1986.

E.27.
W. H. Auden, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book (London: Faber
and Faber, 1971).

Includes ‘The High Hills’ (p.105), ‘Kilns’ (p.209) and ‘Larches’ (p.
218).

E.28.
The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse, Chosen by Philip Larkin
(London: Oxford University Press, 1973).

Includes ‘Strange Hells’ (p.264).

E.29.
The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse, Edited by John Heath
Stubbs and David Wright (3rd Edition: London: Faber and Faber, 1975).

Includes ‘Canadians’ (p.133) and ‘Requiem’ (p.133).

E.30.
A Heritage of Twentieth Century British Song: Volume 1 (London:
Boosey & Hawkes, 1977).

Includes ‘Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes’, ‘I will go with my father a
ploughing’ and ‘Spring’.

E.31.
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, Edited with an
Introduction by Jon Silkin (London & Harmondsworth: Allen Lane
& Penguin Books, 1979).

Includes ‘To His Love, ‘The Silent One’, ‘The Bohemians’, ‘War Books’
and ‘Strange Hells’ (pp.111-114). The second edition, published as a
Penguin paperback in 1981, also includes ‘Butchers and Tombs’ (p.117)
and ‘It is Near Toussaints’ (p.119) and quotes the first line of
‘Strange Hells’ on the back cover.

E.32.
The Batsford Book of Country Verse, Edited by Samuel Carr (London:
B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1979).

Includes ‘The Wood of August’ (p.73) and ‘Larches’ (p.94).

E.33.
The Faber Book of Poems and Places, Edited with an Introduction by
Geoffrey Grigson (London: Faber and Faber, 1980).

Includes ‘The High Hills’, ‘Possessions’, ‘Dawns I Have Seen’, ‘Song:
Severn Meadows’ [i.e. ‘Song (“Only the Wanderer”)’] and ‘Elver Fishermen on the Severn: Two Gloucestershire Fragments’ (pp.125-127). This anthology represents the first publication of ‘Dawns I Have Seen’, reprinted in B.49, and ‘Elver
Fishermen on the Severn’. The latter consists of ‘Rainy Midnight’ and a
shorter unpublished fragment: ‘The white faces are lit below the high
bank, | Deadwood on the brown ledge fishermen made, | The night around
tempers to another shade.’

E.34.
The Oxford Book of War Poetry, Chosen and Edited by Jon
Stallworthy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984).

Includes ‘To His Love’, ‘Ballad of the Three Spectres’ and ‘The Silent
One’ (pp.181-182).

E.35.
Sing Solo Baritone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).

Includes ‘An Epitaph’.

E.36.
The Oxford Book of Short Poems, Chosen and Edited by P. J.
Kavanagh and James Michie (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985).

Includes ‘After War’, ‘On the Night’, ‘The Escape’, and ‘Moments’
(pp.210-211).

E.37.
The Pity of War: Poems of the First World War, Selected with an
Introduction by Jill Balcon; Preface by Edward Carpenter; calligraphy
by Rosamund Grossman; illustrations by Barrington Barber (London:
Shepherd & Walwyn, 1985).

Includes ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ and ‘First Time In’ (pp.26-27).

E.38.
Poetry of the Great War: An Anthology, Edited by Dominic Hibberd
and John Onions (London: Macmillan, 1986).

Includes ‘To England – A Note’ (p.54), ‘The Silent One’ (p.78), ‘Riez
Bailleul’ (p.103), ‘The Target’ (p.129), ‘To the Prussians of England’
(p.145), ‘First Time In’ (p.145), ‘Mist on Meadows’ (p.183), ‘War
Books’ (p.189) and a biographical note (p.218). Gurney is discussed in
the introduction and there are also explanatory notes to individual poems.

E.39.
From Parry to Britten: British Music in Letters 1900-1945, edited
by Lewis Foreman (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1987).

Includes letters from Gurney to Herbert Howells taken from D.2 on pp.87 and 90-91, a 1918 letter from Howells to
Gurney on p.89 and a 1939 letter from Howells to Marion Scott
concerning the proofs of A.32 and A.33
on p.223. It also contains an otherwise unpublished asylum letter from
Gurney to Marion Scott circa 1924 (pp.207-208) largely concerned with
‘the Football score. (Sunday)’, British and German history and
topography and authors that Gurney is reading.

E.40.
In Time of War, edited by Anne Harvey (London: Blackie and Son,
1987).

Includes ‘The Target’ (p.30) and a biographical note (p.142). An
anthology of First and Second World War poetry aimed at younger
readers, illustrated with woodcuts and poster reproductions in black
and white. Reissued as a Penguin paperback in 1989 and a Puffin
paperback in 1995. The first line of ‘The Target’ is quoted on the back
cover of the Puffin edition.

E.41.
Never Such Innocence: A New Anthology of Great War Verse, Edited
and Introduced by Martin Stephen (London: Buchan & Enright, 1988).

Includes ‘Crucifix Corner’ (p.128), ‘I Saw French Once’ (p.134) and a
biographical note (p.337). Reissued as an Everyman paperback in 1991.

E.42.
Robert Giddings, The War Poets: The Lives and Writings of the
1914-1918 War Poets (London: Bloomsbury, 1988).

Includes ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ (p.68), ‘Pain’ (p.69), ‘To His
Love’ (p.82), ‘Strange Hells’ (p.129), ‘The Silent One’ (p.130) and
‘War Books’ (p.173). A selection of First World War poetry interspersed
with commentary in which Gurney receives extensive mention. Illustrated
with contemporary cartoons, prints and paintings.

E.43.
Poetry of the First World War, Selected by Edward Hudson (Hove:
Wayland, 1988).

Includes ‘Ballad of the Three Spectres’ (p.55), ‘The Target’ (p.109)
and a biographical note (p.122). Illustrated with black and white
photographs.

E.44.
The Coloured Counties: Poems of Place in England and Wales,
Selected and with an Introduction by John Arlott (London: J. M. Dent
& Sons Ltd., 1988).

Includes ‘The Fire Kindled’ (p.124). A revised version of E.16.

E.45.
Lads: Love Poetry of the Trenches, Edited by Martin Taylor
(London: Constable, 1989).

Includes ‘First Time In’ (p.78), ‘Photographs’ (p.79), ‘The Estaminet’
(p.83), ‘”Hark, hark, the lark”‘ (p.132), ‘Dicky’ (p.175), ‘To His
Love’ (p.181), ‘Toasts and Memories’ (p.190), ‘The Mangel-bury’ (p.204),
‘Farewell’ (p.212), ‘Strange Hells’ (p.214) and a biographical note
(p.235). Gurney is also discussed in the introduction.

E.46.
Ill at Ease: Writers on Ailments Real and Imagined, edited by D.
J. Enright (London: Faber and Faber, 1989).

Includes ‘To God’ (p.295). Also issued with the alternative title The
Faber Book of Fevers and Frets.

E.47.
The Penguin Book of First World War Prose, Edited with an
Introduction by Jon Glover and Jon Silkin (Harmondsworth: Viking Books,
1989), pp. 411-422.

Selections from nineteen letters from D.2, beginning
in February 1915 and ending with Gurney’s suicide note of June 1918,
with a brief biographical introduction (pp.411-422).

E.48.
The Faber Book of Vernacular Verse, Edited by Tom Paulin (London:
Faber and Faber, 1990).

Includes ‘First Time In’ (pp.46-47) and ‘Felling a Tree’ (pp.332-336).

E.49.
Poetry of the World Wars, Edited by Michael Foss (London: Michael
O’Mara Books, 1990).

E.50.
Elected Friends: Poems for and about Edward Thomas, Compiled by
Anne Harvey with an Introduction by Vernon Scannell (London: Enitharmon
Press, 1991).

Includes ‘The Poets of my County’ and ‘The Mangel-bury’. See also N.17.

E.51.
Shades of Green, Poems chosen by Anne Harvey; Illustrated by John Lawrence (London: Julia Mac Rae Books, 1991).

Includes ‘Hedger’ (p.84). Gurney’s poem is part of the ‘Flower-lovers and Weed-lovers’ section of this anthology, which describes itself as being ‘dedicated to the green spirit’.

E.52.
Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill: Poems of Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds and Beyond, Selected by Johnny Coppin with Wood
Engravings by Ray Hedger (Gloucestershire: The Windrush Press, 1991).

Includes ‘There Was Such Beauty’ (p.13), ‘The Fisherman of Newnham’
(p.16), ‘The Incense Bearers’ (p.27), ‘East Wind’ (p.39), ‘Cotswold
Ways’ (p.43), ‘Up There’ (p.49), ‘Quiet Talk’ (p.54), ‘Old Martinmas
Eve’ (p.69) and ‘The High Hills’ (p.91).

E.53.
The War Poets: An Anthology, Selected by Michael Wylie (Norwich:
Jarrold Press, 1992).

Includes ‘The Retreat’, ‘Near Vermand’, ‘Requiem’, ‘Pain’, ‘Servitude’,
and ‘To the Poet Before Battle’ (pp.42-45). Issued in a pocket edition
as part of The Jarrold Poets series.

E.54.
Some Corner of a Foreign Field: Poetry of the Great War, Edited by
James Bentley (London & Toronto: Little, Brown & Co, 1992).

Includes ‘To His Love’ (p.23), ‘First Time In’ (p.34), ‘The Silent One’
(p.61) and a biographical note (p.114). Illustrated with decorations
and contemporary paintings.

E.55.
Robert Giddings, Echoes of War: Portraits of War from the Fall of
Troy to the Gulf (London: Bloomsbury, 1992).

Includes ‘The Silent One’ (p.250). A selection of writing about warfare
with a critical commentary which includes brief details of Gurney’s
life.

E.56.
Between the Severn and the Wye: Poems of the Border Counties of
England and Wales, Selected by Johnny Coppin with Wood Engravings by
Ray Hedger (Gloucestershire: The Windrush Press, 1993).

Includes ‘Song (“Only the wanderer”)’ (p.95), ‘Tewkesbury’ (p.97), an
extract from ‘The Old City – Gloucester’ (p.99) and ‘The Lock Keeper’
(p.106).

E.57.
The Norton Anthology of English Literature Volume 2 (6th Edition.
New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co, 1993).

Includes ‘To His Love’, ‘Toward Lillers’, ‘The Silent One’, ‘December
30th’ and a biographical and critical introduction (pp.1835-1838). Gurney’s poems were also included in the fifth edition, published in 1986.

E.58.
The Poetry Please! Book of Favourite Poems, Edited by Susan
Roberts (London: BBC Books, 1993).

Includes ‘Up There’ (p.71). An anthology of poems chosen by guests on
BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please! programme. ‘Up There’ is the choice of the actor David Goodland, who has played Gurney on several ocassions; see N.11, N.13
and N.14.

E.59.
Green and Pleasant Land: A Thousand Years of Poetry, Selected by
Diana Saville (Hereford: Robert Ditchfield Ltd. for W.H. Smiths
Exclusive Books series, 1993).

Includes ‘Strange Hells’ (p.249) and a short biographical note (p.261).

E.60.
The Marginalia Book of Composers’ Letters, Edited by Jan Fielden
(London: The Marginalia Press, 1994).

Includes a letter of February 1917 from Gurney to Herbert Howells
(pp.169-170), originally printed in D.5 on
pp.208-209.

E.61.
Wales at War, Edited by John Richards (Cardiff: University of
Wales Press, 1994).

E.62.
Simon Featherstone, War Poetry: An Introductory Reader (London:
Routledge, 1995).

Includes ‘Strange Service’, ‘De Profundis’, ‘Strange Hells’, ‘First
Time In’, ‘The Silent One’, ‘Swift and Slow’, ‘The Mangel-bury’, ‘While
I Write’ and a biographcal note (pp.119-125). Issued as part of
Routledge’s Critical Readers in Theory and Practice series. Gurney’s
poetry is the subject of extensive critical discussion throughout.

E.63.
The Wordsworth Book of First World War Poetry, Selected, with an Introduction and Bibliography, by Marcus Clapham (Ware:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1995).

Includes ‘Ballad of Three Spectres’, ‘To His Love’, ‘The Silent One’, ‘The Bohemians’, ‘War Books’ and ‘Strange Hells’ (pp.30-35).