Six Poets

Six Poets
Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0300215053


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The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett creates a unique anthology of works by six well-loved poets. Freely admitting his own youthful bafflement with poetry, Bennett reassures us that the poets and poems in this volume are not only accessible but also highly enjoyable. He then proceeds to prove irresistibly that this is so. Bennett selects more than seventy poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, and Philip Larkin. He peppers his discussion of these writers and their verse with anecdotes, shrewd appraisal, and telling biographical detail: Hardy lyrically recalls his first wife, Emma, in his poetry, although he treated her shabbily in real life. The fabled Auden was a formidable and off-putting figure at the lectern. Larkin, hoping to subvert snooping biographers, ordered personal papers shredded upon his death. Simultaneously profound and entertaining, Bennett's book is a paean to poetry and its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice. its creators, made all the more enjoyable for being told in his own particular voice.


Six Poets
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Alan Bennett
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett
Six Poetshardy to L
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Alan Bennett
Categories: English poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-02 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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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 conver
Six Poets
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Alan Bennett
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-06 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works In this candid, thoroughly engaging book, Alan Bennett
Philip Larkin
Language: en
Pages: 815
Authors: James Booth
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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_______________ 'Superb ... Booth's psychology is subtler than Motion's and more convincing' - Peter J. Conradi, Spectator 'Booth's diligence is unquestionable
Philip Larkin Poems
Language: en
Pages: 121
Authors: Philip Larkin
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-04-05 - Publisher: Faber & Faber

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For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Mar