Ivor Gurney

1890–1937 · 20th century · England

Ivor Bertie Gurney was an English poet and composer. Born and raised in Gloucester, he suffered from bipolar disorder through much of his life and spent his last 15 years in psychiatric hospitals. Critical evaluation of Gurney has been complicated by this, and also by the need to assess both his poetry and his music. Gurney himself thought of music as his true vocation: "The brighter visions brought music; the fainter verse".

• Orpheus — 5 Elizabethan Songs · No. 1
• Tears — 5 Elizabethan Songs · No. 2
• Under the Greenwood Tree — 5 Elizabethan Songs · No. 3
• Sleep — 5 Elizabethan Songs · No. 4
• Spring — 5 Elizabethan Songs · No. 5
• I will go with my father a-ploughing — Song