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    Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett
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    Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett

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    Alan Bennett's selection of English verse by his favourite poets, accompanied by his own enlivening commentary.

    In this personal anthology, Alan Bennett has chosen more than 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 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, which are 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateOct 2, 2014
    ISBN9780571321124
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    Six Poets: Hardy to Larkin: An Anthology by Alan Bennett
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    Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett es autor de muchas y celebradas obras teatrales como "Habeas Corpus", "Forty One Years On", "Kafka's Dick" o "The Madness of George III" (adaptada después al cine), guiones cinematográficos como Prick Up Your Ears (basado en la vida de Joe Orton), y piezas televisivas, en especial "Talking Heads" y "An Englishman Abroad", que lo han convertido en uno de los autores británicos más queridos. Asimismo es muy apreciado como actor. Empezó a escribir es prosa hace solo unos diez años.

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    • 3/5
      Excellent audio book, but the copy seemed to be faulty with skipped tracks and gaps. Put that technical flaws spoiled it for me.