Abstract
This article looks at the song cycle Ludlow and Teme, written by Ivor Gurney in 1919. Gurney set poems from A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (1896), which were popular with many composers in the early twentieth century. However, Gurney's recent war experience and his own war poetry tell a very different story from Housman's pre-war poetic versions of the military. The article examines the complex relationship between the songs and their texts. It looks at how Gurney, a poet and composer, uses Housman's words to write songs that both embrace and attack the military, exploring in music the same themes with which his own war poems are concerned.
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