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Poets 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 a hundred 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. Speaking with candor 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.
In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen over a hundred 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. Speaking with candor 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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Review:
A prose stylist of disarming grace and sly humor . . . Surprising, funny, and deeply affecting. Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review
--Charles McGrath"
One of the greatest living English writers. David Thomson, The Nation--David Thomson"
There is probably no other distinguished English man of letters more instantly likable than Bennett. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
--Michael Dirda"
"A prose stylist of disarming grace and sly humor . . . Surprising, funny, and deeply affecting."--Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review
--Charles McGrath
"One of the greatest living English writers."--David Thomson, The Nation--David Thomson
"There is probably no other distinguished English man of letters more instantly likable than Bennett."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
--Michael Dirda
Book Description:
--Charles McGrath"
One of the greatest living English writers. David Thomson, The Nation--David Thomson"
There is probably no other distinguished English man of letters more instantly likable than Bennett. Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
--Michael Dirda"
"A prose stylist of disarming grace and sly humor . . . Surprising, funny, and deeply affecting."--Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review
--Charles McGrath
"One of the greatest living English writers."--David Thomson, The Nation--David Thomson
"There is probably no other distinguished English man of letters more instantly likable than Bennett."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World
--Michael Dirda
Six Poets is Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets - from Hardy to Larkin - read by the author on audio CD with his own enlivening commentary.
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- PublisherAtavist Inc
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1937894525
- ISBN 13 9781937894528
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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