tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598278174540075286.post612987405065040784..comments2023-12-24T00:31:50.902+00:00Comments on Ivor Gurney: 'New' musical worksPhilip Lancasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17457417552041307923noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598278174540075286.post-18859332800764303442010-02-07T22:35:48.840+00:002010-02-07T22:35:48.840+00:00Are you sure it isn't Dolben? The poet Digby ...Are you sure it isn't Dolben? The poet Digby Mackworth Dolben died in 1867 aged 19 but his collected poems weren't published until 1915, edited by Robert Bridges. There's a PDF of the collection available through www.archive.org .<br />K.Kerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10906697197001353206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598278174540075286.post-80569075227407446042009-10-18T16:30:22.616+01:002009-10-18T16:30:22.616+01:00"Dolman" sounded familiar so I looked at..."Dolman" sounded familiar so I looked at Elected Friends: Poems for and about Edward Thomas (Enitharmon, 1991)because Dolman made me think of it. Sure enough, Charles Dolman (1872-1938) had written a poem for ET "Elegy for Edward Thomas" and he was from Sussex (Shoreham). The Elegy to ET appeared in Dalmon's Poor Man's Riches (Methuen,1922) and in the 1944 Poems of Our Time. I've dipped into some of my old WWI poetry books but haven't come up with anything by him save the ET poem. IF Dolman is the source of the 1920 anthem perhaps Gurney saw the poem in a newspaper or magazine?? There is a 30 March 1938 Times obituary that might be helpful to you if you can access it.<br />PamUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10227631102050688021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1598278174540075286.post-34615010775042181552009-10-13T12:37:31.573+01:002009-10-13T12:37:31.573+01:00I have just been skating through some of the Gurne...I have just been skating through some of the Gurney Collected Letters whilst dating some unpublished petters for the forthcoming Society Journal and have found a further reference that may (or then again may not!) relate to the elusive poet 'Dolber', whom Gurney claims to have set in his 1920 anthem. In letter 416 of the Collected Letters, which should date from about June 1922, Gurney writes: <br />'There is a book by a Sussex Poet beginning with D (Dolman?) patronised if not cut up by the Times which has a fine elegy on Edward Thomas'. <br /><br />It may be relevant; it may not. Then again, this is 1922, not 1920; and if Gurney's set 'D's' work it may be odd that he can't recall his name. That said, it wouldn't be unknown given the evidence of the 'Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes', which Gurney attributes to Ernest Casson, who is in fact Edmund. <br /><br />Another contender would be Ernest Dowson, but the handwriting certainly looks more like Dolber. <br /><br />My thanks to Pam Blevins who has been searching through a number of her books for possible Dolbers, as yet without yielding any fruit; and also to Charles Moore who has been searching his files for any further information he may have regarding the works mentioned in this post.<br /><br />P.Philip Lancasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17457417552041307923noreply@blogger.com