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Alan Bennett
Standard Name: Bennett, Alan
Connections
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Fictionalization | W. H. Auden | His influence on poetry written in English has continued into the twenty-first century. In Alan Bennett
's The Habit of Art, performed and published in 2009, dramatised the reunion of Auden and Britten late... |
Friends, Associates | Fay Weldon | Their social circle in north London included many writers and painters, including Ted Hughes
and Sylvia Plath
, David
and Assia Wevill
, Kingsley Amis
and Elizabeth Jane Howard
, Bernice Rubens
, psychologist R. D. Laing |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | During the early part of ICB
's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer
was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger... |
Literary responses | Richmal Crompton | In a 1989 article in The Listener, journalist Patrick Humphries
imagined a future for William in which he is married to Violet Elizabeth (who has therefore taken over the name of Mrs Brown... |
Literary responses | Sarah Kane | A propos the Sheffield production of 2015, Alan Bennett
commented on the difficulty of achieving realism with such extreme violence: how can a character mutilated on stage be shown as having attention for anything at... |
Literary responses | Philip Larkin | PL
declined the poet laureateship, which was offered him after John Betjeman
died (on 19 May 1984), on the grounds that he was no longer a practising poet. His many honorary doctorates included those with... |
Literary responses | Hilary Mantel | Colin Burrow
found this novel brilliant, perhaps perverse, offering substantial and deep pleasure to the reader, excelling particularly when the historical record is uncertain or contradictory, well able to stand comparison with the portrait of... |
Reception | Philip Larkin | Anthony Thwaite
edited PL
's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion
published a biography in 1993. |
Residence | Sylvia Plath | Alan Bennett
noted in February 2010 that the house has a blue plaque saying that Yeats lived there, but no mention that Plath died there. Eliot, George. “Editorial Materials”. Essays of George Eliot, edited by Thomas Pinney, Columbia University Press, 1963, p. various pages. |
Timeline
23 August 1960
The satirical review Beyond the Fringe, launched at the Edinburgh Festival, inaugurated a new style of surreal and irreverent topical comedy in Britain.