Peter Porter , poet and critic, presents the first of eight programmes on poetry in Britain since the war.
1: The Horatians
'Auden was so great and influential a poet ... that the peculiarly Horatian tone of his later work was taken up by many important poets.'
PETER PORTER explores the qualities in W. H. Auden, and in William Empson. Which, in different ways, invest the work of among others, Louis MacNeice, Roy Fuller and Gavin Ewart.
Readers GARARD GREEN and the poets themselves Producer PRUDENCE SMITH
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