As far as Ivor Gurney is concerned, the only sensible association which I could think of in connection with his poetry (and indeed, his music) would be that he wrote some of it during his spell in the 'infamous Ypres Salient' or the vicinity of the 'infamous Menin Road', where he got gassed in 1917.
Surely I would not go as far as to call Gurneys' subtle and profoundly human poems 'notorious', which I think is what the word 'infamous' really comes up to.
Chris Spriet
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Meg Crane <megmcrane@gmail.com> Feb 13 02:42PM
School pupils almost invariably seem to think that "infamous" means "very
famous indeed" rather than "famous for evil deeds". I expect this
journalist is rather young ... it's what comes of not ...more
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Stace <stace@galnet.dk> Feb 13 07:31AM -0800
Indeed yes Meg! (I began to doubt if I'd read it correctly!).
I have challenged the author to explain their word choice on this very
forum.
Stace
Den torsdag den 13. februar 2014 ...more
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