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Ben’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Superb biography that gives context to Ted’s poems and uses access to lots of unpublished material to trace the story of his life in great detail with new discoveries along the way. | |
"This is a ground-breaking biography by the Oxford academic Jonathan Bate. He gives a fully balanced portrait of very complex and multi-faceted personality. In view of the estate's withdrawal of co-operation Bates has pulled off the impossible - the f"
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| Ted writes in the notes that his essay is “arcane” and maybe needs more explanation. But it’s full of interesting insights into the poetic self, and how Eliot was writing in an age where people were disillusioned with religion and war. | |
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| Read this while I was staying in Ted’s house. He believed Christianity disconnected us from nature especially after the Reformation. So in this book God comes down and teaches people more respect for animals. The Collected Poems for Children reproduc ...more | |
“Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them.”
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“Studies show:
Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don't think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she's me”
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Intelligent girls are more depressed
Because they know
What the world is really like
Don't think for a beat it makes it better
When you sit her down and tell her
Everything gonna be all right
She knows in society she either is
A devil or an angel with no in between
She speaks in the third person
So she can forget that she's me”
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“Studies show that intelligent girls are more depressed because they know the world.”
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“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.”
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“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”
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