Text is clean. Datestamp on front free endpaper. Cover shows only minimal wear. ; FROM BACK COVER: This is the first full length study of one of the most inportant English poets of the twentieth century. Drawing on biographical information, letters, reminiscences and anecdotes, John Lucas pieces together Gurney's difficule 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 Cotswolds and London, is the sane utterance of a deeply radicalized writer. . . . ; Writers and Their Work Series; 114 pages