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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry: 100 Men On The Words That Move Them
In this fascinating anthology one hundred men - distinguished in literature and film science and architecture theatre and human rights - confess to being moved to tears by poems that haunt them Representing 20 nationalities and ranging in age from their early 20s to their late 80s the majority are public figures not prone to crying Here they admit to breaking down when ambushed by great art often in words as powerful as the poems themselves 75 per cent of the selected poems were written in the 20th century with more than a dozen by women Their themes range from love in its many guises through mortality and loss to the beauty and variety of nature Three men have suffered the pain of losing a child; others are moved to tears by the exquisite way a poet captures in Alexander Pope's famous
phrase 'what oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd' From JJ Abrams to John le Carre Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave Ian McEwan to Stephen Fry Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth and Seamus Heaney to Christopher Hitchens this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing acting and thinking are admired around the world
phrase 'what oft was thought but ne'er so well express'd' From JJ Abrams to John le Carre Salman Rushdie to Jonathan Franzen Daniel Radcliffe to Nick Cave Ian McEwan to Stephen Fry Stanley Tucci to Colin Firth and Seamus Heaney to Christopher Hitchens this collection delivers private insight into the souls of men whose writing acting and thinking are admired around the world
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