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"The inimitable Alan Bennett selects and comments upon six favorite poets and the pleasures of their works"--Amazon.com.;Thomas Hardy -- A. E. Housman -- John Betjeman -- W. H. Auden -- Louis MacNeice -- Philip Larkin.
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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 Martin Amis. 'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way
In a waiting-room -- Faintheart in a railway train -- The harbour bridge -- At the aquatic sports -- The country wedding -- A trampwoman's tragedy -- The clock-winder -- The abbey-mason -- Drawing details in an old church -- The old workman -- VETERIS VESTIGIA FLAMMAE: She opened the door -- Thought
This celebration of what is perhaps the most influential of all poetic forms takes haiku back to its Japanese roots, beginning with poems by the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century masters Basho, Busson, and Issa, and going all the way up to the late twentieth century to provide a survey of haiku th