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Blunt, Anthony, --- Burgess, Guy, --- Drama --- 733 --- Theater - Engels
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82-2=20 --- 82-2=20 Toneel. Drama--Engels --- Toneel. Drama--Engels --- English literature
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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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Ce que l'on peut au moins dire en la faveur des espions, c'est qu'ils risquaient leur propre peau tandis que les politiciens risquaient celle des autres. Bien sûr, Blunt, Burgess et cie avaient l'avantage sur nous d'avoir encore des illusions. Ils avaient un endroit vers où se tourner. Le problème, aujourd'hui, est que si l'on veut trahir son pays au profit d'un autre, on voit difficilement lequel en vaudrait la peine. S'il y avait le choix, plus de gens le feraient.
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