Robert Forster
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295 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2019
last heard 14 Jun
Robert Forster’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He's he's looking at the early career of Tennyson up to about eighteen fifty when Tennyson's forty, almost fifty.
You know, Tennyson i is a poet who's probably his reputation has gone down quite a lot.
um over the last 50, 60 years.
But he sort of resurrects the early Tennyson, not the m poet laureate of empire that he becomes in the latter half of the 19th century.
But it's the the young man at Cambridge writing his early poetry, who's a far more radical person than what he turns in to be.
So it's it's concentrating on early Tennyson as a poet and at the same
time and this is something that Holmes does has done a lot over the last twenty years, is wind in scientific discovery through botany, astronomy, the invention of the telescope, the invention of the microscope, and how this brought into this crisis of God and man and the early part of the nineteenth century and how it affected the poets.
He's a really good writer.
He's he's light
He doesn't get bogged down and he's really good on literary criticism and looking into he knows the poets really well.
Well, I recommend David Mulouf's John O.
It has a special resonance with me because he was um was a Brisbane author.
I was born and raised here.
So was um Maloof and I read John O when I was in school in the mid seventies, early seventies, because the book was set in Brisbane and th the books I wasn't from a family of readers, but you know, I'd I'd encountered literature through
The first time in secondary school.
And so, you know, like we'd read Dickens, we'd read Salinger, we'd read, you know, The Great Gatsby.
And suddenly to have the next book that, you know, like came in the English course around the age of 15 or 16 that I was, for it to be a Brisbane novel, so beautifully written, with great sensitivity, but also covered a time of, and this is where it got even more personal for me.
Was that it covered Brisbane through the Second World War, with the arrival of the American soldiers in Brisbane, which was something that my father, who was not a great talker, lived through when he was like 14 or 15.
So I heard about this over the kitchen table, you know, like Brisbane in the Second World War.
So that was another wave that came with the book, was reading about my hometown so beautiful.
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