Drawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney\'s difficult, indeed tragic life, in order to show that Gurney\'s poetry, while undoubtedly affected by his mental problems, his trench experiences in World War One, and his complex relationship to Gloucester, the Cotswalds and London, is the sane utterance of a deeply radicalized writer..
Drawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney\'s difficult, indeed tragic life, in order to show that Gurney\'s poetry, while undoubtedly affected by his mental problems, his trench experiences in World War One, and his complex relationship to Gloucester, the Cotswalds and London, is the sane utterance of a deeply radicalized writer.
