Ah, Desmond, that Monitor period piece, it's so British. By way contrast,
I'm not saying better or worse, from across the Channel here's Yves Bonnefoy
with Henri Cartier-Bresson:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfwNrPX2pvw&feature=related
(that's part two of several btw)
2009/11/6 Desmond Swords <[log in to unmask]>
> Cheer yourself up with the 1964 Monitor profile of Philip Larkin
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTdDS05x6d0&feature=related
>
> ..you think po-biz paranoia is bad now, just watch the fury and elation
> buried in Phils face when facing his biggest rival, John Betjeman. Notice
> how Betjeman read more of Phil's poem than he did, and get behind the
> sufrace dance between these two fruity bores.
>
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