1/4 Great Poets In Their Own Words: Access All Areas 1955-1982
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First broadcast: Aug 2014.
Episode 2/2 In the 1950s, English poetry becomes more democratic as poets like Philip Larkin turn away from the obscurity of modernism in favour of language and subject matter that reflect the feel of 50s Britain. American poets develop a raw confessional style, while in Britain poets reach out to new audiences - on television, in pubs, on the streets. Featuring the work of Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Roger McGough, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Seamus Heaney.
Praise be for BBC integrity & UK esteem for the arts, poetry, & poets exemplified here (wish it were so in America). Result of the effort (culling their archives, identifying, assembling & bringing together the narrative chronologically) is poetry, too. How wonderfuul & brilliant it is to see (unadulterated or fancied up for POV) actual ffootage paired with (popular) poets in their milieu, hearing theiir words on their art, recorded at different phases, points (youth vs. time) in their lives. So layered & profound, to simply witness evolution of deadly wars, national identity, cultural norms, mass consumption, TV, poet’ identity, & of art (so many parallels in painting & music) & expression - where they fit in. Finding this (w/o brain cell & soul destroying interruption) has brought great joy & happiness about the possibilities of the future. THANK U!!!
I love Philip Larkin. Very underrated poet.
Thank u, very much, great stuff, footage, narratives & poets, thoroughly versed.
Whoever scripted this seems to have underestimated the extent to which A Alvarez anthology THE NEW POETRY was representative of the Movement and several others as well as the Americans. Still, one of those books which defined an era and remains relevant to anyone discovering poetry even today. Remember it was always in my pocket as a teenager and even now it feels special.
British/ UK post- WW II poetry doesn't happend until John Lydon, Joe Strummer, Poly Styrene, Siouxsie Sioux and Shane McGowan
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Amis was also childishly xenophobic e.g. about the greater French writers, who of course would not be seen dead writing that English illness 'light verse'. Listen to the professor of American literature, very funny, the decline to the rubbish around us today.
whats the soundtack?
The last piece of Jazz was the opening track to John Coltranes Blue note LP Blue Train, the track before that was Brubeck's Take 5. There may have been a Bechet track before that, Larkin was mad about him and early jazz.
Dave Brubeck, Take Five (CA cool).
Shouldn't the title of this installment be "2/4 ... " rather than "1/4" ?
Sorry - perhaps I was mistaken. But the dates in the title are confusing in relation to the rest of the series.
Oops - it's taken me a while. Just realized there are 2 parts, each with 4 episodes. Duh!
English poetry in this early period was such a fucking great big yawn. "Movement"?! What a complete misnomer. I rail against every shred of these Establishment jerks. The very fact they find comfort is a lie and the ultimate human betrayal.
Christ what a falling off was there, From the era of Yeats Pound DH Lawrence Graves McNeice McDiarmid Empson Thomas to this wretched prosaic rubbish, From Hyperion to a satyr, From 1955 until now poetry in England has been a rathole, Thank God for poets in Scotland Wales NI Ireland NZ Australia the West Indies and Moore/Bishop in the US to keep poetry in English alive,Those countries did the same for prose too
It was part of the massive decline in all the arts. The elite have the great paintings in their homes and the teachings in book form all long since removed from libraries.
Larkin, “writing for the welfare state” dreary from Hull & becoming something of a UK celebrity & then drinking to the end.
I was thinking the exact same thing lol.
Implying Mcdiarmid and Lawrence are some kind of high bar to aspire to evinces you as a bit of a thicko, I'm afraid.