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How to be a Poet ~ The Icelandic saga of Njorl
I had to laugh when I read how Auden nearly put Alan Bennett off writing!!!
"When Auden outlined what he took to be the prerequisites of a literary life, or at any rate a life devoted to poetry, I was properly dismayed. Besides favourite books, essential seemed to be a literary landscape (Leeds?), a knowledge of metre and scansion and (this was the clincher) a passion for the Icelandic sagas. If writing meant passing this kind of kit inspection, I'd better forget it."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/oct/30/whauden-alan-bennett
Monty Python - Njorl's Saga (Part II)
The terribly terrible Icelandic saga of Njorl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp9M9tJx1I
"When Auden outlined what he took to be the prerequisites of a literary life, or at any rate a life devoted to poetry, I was properly dismayed. Besides favourite books, essential seemed to be a literary landscape (Leeds?), a knowledge of metre and scansion and (this was the clincher) a passion for the Icelandic sagas. If writing meant passing this kind of kit inspection, I'd better forget it."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/oct/30/whauden-alan-bennett
Monty Python - Njorl's Saga (Part II)
The terribly terrible Icelandic saga of Njorl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdp9M9tJx1I
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