Tuesday, September 23, 2008

News at Eleven: [Andrew] Motion, too, was only yards

from Larkin during his time teaching in Hull.

Unsurprisingly, for a poet who places himself firmly in the English line, there are pieces here on Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas, on Wilfred Owen and John Betjeman. The Thomas essay, 'An Imaginary Life', allows the poet to live through the First World War and imagines him evolving into 'an English modernist' by the Twenties.

from The Guardian: Transported by the art of Motion

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