“If you are tempted, even now, by the lingering romantic delusion that there might be some grandeur, or finesse, in the prospect of a creative mind under siege, the ordeal of Ivor Gurney will set you right,” Anthony Lane writes.
Do not forget me quite,The heartbreak of the song is audible in the half rhyme of “shadows” and “meadows,” which forbids the singer’s voice to find complete rest. “Severn Meadows,” as it’s known, marks one of the strangely rare occasions on which Gurney’s two skills were conjoined. He made an effort, not always successful, to keep them apart. “The brighter visions brought music; the fainter verse,” he wrote.
The friend in question was a woman named Marion Scott, a central figure in the story of Ivor Gurney. Thirteen years his senior, she first encountered him, in 1911, at the Royal College of Music. What struck her, she remembered, was “the look of latent force in him, the fine head with its profusion of light brown hair .
Yet nothing about Gurney is more moving than the fortitude that he displayed at this wayward time. Embattled though he was, he resumed his studies at the Royal College of Music, and was lucky to be taught by the newly appointed Ralph Vaughan Williams, who was to become a mentor to his artistry and a source of emotional succor.
Is it frivolous, or wrong, to delve into “Dweller in Shadows” in search of light? No, not only because the poet set so courageous an example, rifling through his memories and retrieving old glimmers of felicity, but also because of the compassion that was shown by his more inquiring doctors, as well as the reassurance—the glow of friendship undeterred—that was brought by the people who loved him.
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