Andrew Motion

Poetic injustice for Andrew Motion | John Sutherland The literary lynch mob is in a blind fury over Andrew Motion's 'found poem' - but it isn't plagiarism guardian.co.uk, Monday 9 November 2009 15.40 GMT There is no easier way of...

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Sir Andrew Motion, the former Poet Laureate, has been accused of ripping off work by a military historian for a Remembrance Sunday poem. Published: 2:49PM GMT 09 Nov 2009 Sir Andrew Motion: accused of ripping off historian's work for...

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FORMER British poet laureate Andrew Motion has been accused of "shameless burglary" by a military historian whose research he lifted and put into a poem about shell shock for Remembrance Sunday. The former poet laureate yesterday insisted...

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Navigation - link to other main sections from here So what if I copied work says Sir Andrew Motion, Shakespeare did all the time Sir Andrew Motion has been accused of "shameless burglary" by a military historian whose research he lifted...

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...for women can lead him slightly astray. In connection with this, I fail to understand his admiration for Andrew Motion's life of Philip Larkin. Motion was an extremely effective Poet Laureate and has written some fine literary lives (most...

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...back to the early 19th century to compose this emotionally-wrought valentine to John Keats and his lover Fanny Brawne. Based on Andrew Motion's biography of the poet, Bright Star is a haunting portrait of two fragile souls denied...

In this article: Jane Campion, John Keats, Bright Star, Abbie Cornish, Oscar, Charles Brown, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider, and London

...by falling in love with too much, far too much, including Brawne. To complete or complicate matters, as Campion's script from Andrew Motion's Keats biography makes plain (and plainness is the film's beauty and strength), his health was...

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...said. "It is particularly appropriate that they will be in Cambridge, his old university and a place that he loved." Andrew Motion, a former poet laureate also involved in the campaign, called it "extremely good news". "It is a very...

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...of entry into poetry and his life story is a big part of that magical equation. Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The...

In this article: John Keats, Charles Brown, Bright Star, Jane Campion, Melancholy, Leigh Hunt, England, and Rome

...which included prayers led by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and a verse for the new court by former poet laureate Andrew Motion. US justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg also had been scheduled to attend, but she became ill just...

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