Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Modern English poets: Auden, Larkin, Hill, Agbabi, Riviere

Visual early Auden: a Pennine valley, and a worked-out mine.

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1558?).

Auden's "Lullaby" (from the Academy of American Poets).

More of Auden's poems (from the Academy, with some audio). Auden reading his poems in New York City in 1972, from the New York Times. The Auden society.

The Philip Larkin society (weird-looking site design alludes to Larkin's poem "Toads"; some links don't work). Unglamorous Hull city centre, today; a road by Pearson Park, where Larkin lived, and a tiny image of Larkin's own flat. And Byrnmor Jones Library, Univ. of Hull.

Larkin's "High Windows." More Larkin poems in reliable versions online, from the Poetry Foundation.

Also from the Foundation, Geoffrey Hill; some segments from Mercian Hymns.

The Kings of Mercia.

The main page for Sam Riviere.

Riviere's Tweets.

Riviere's selected shorter works. People interview Riviere.

Patience Agbabi's performance of the works on our syllabus. Her source in Chaucer.

Agbabi's Tweets. Her brief prose autobiography. Her sporadic blog.

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