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Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Pgw
Publication date March 31, 2015
Pages 224
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9781937894528
ISBN-10 1937894525
Dimensions 0 by 5 by 7 in.
Availability§ Publication Cancelled
Original list price $12.99
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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.


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from Gardners Books (October 2, 2014); titled "Six Poets Hardy to Larkin"
9780571321094 | details & prices | 224 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $24.70
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