Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: an Anthology - Rilegato

Bennett, Alan

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ISBN 10: 0300215053 ISBN 13: 9780300215052

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2015

Riassunto

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, though 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.

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L'autore:

Alan Bennett is a renowned playwright, many of whose plays have been staged at the Royal National Theatre. He is also widely admired as essayist, actor, and screenwriter, and his screenplay forThe Madness of King George received an Academy Award nomination. His dozens of books includeSmut, The Uncommon Reader, Untold Stories, A Life Like Other People’s,and The Lady in the Van. Bennett lives in Camden Town in London, UK.

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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."

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• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0300215053
• ISBN 13: 9780300215052
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 210