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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin

An Anthology by Alan Bennett

By (author) Alan Bennett
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London, United Kingdom
Published: 1st Oct 2015
Dimensions: w 129mm h 198mm d 13mm
Weight: 189g
ISBN-10: 0571321100
ISBN-13: 9780571321100
Barcode No: 9780571321100
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Synopsis
Writers like to elude their public, lead them a bit of a dance. They take them down untrodden paths, land them in unknown country where they have to ask for directions. In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over seventy poems by six well-loved poets, discussing the writers and their verse in his customary conversational style through anecdote, shrewd appraisal and spare but telling biographical detail. Ranging from hidden treasures to famous poems, this is a collection for the beginner and the expert alike. Speaking with candour about his own reactions to the work, Alan Bennett creates profound and witty portraits of Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin, all the more enjoyable for being in his own particular voice. Anybody writing poetry in the thirties had somehow to come to terms with Auden. Auden, you see, had got a head start on the other poets. He'd got into the thirties first, like someone taking over the digs.

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