Peter Davison
Peter Davison
Peter Davison is an English actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small, and as the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1981 to 1984. Also, he played David Braithwaite in At Home with the Braithwaites. Since 2011 he has played Henry Sharpe in Law & Order: UK...
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth13 April 1951
CityLondon, England
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Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
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There are some poets, and some of the good ones, who really act as careerists and go out and make a career, make sure they're well regarded.
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They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
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The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
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However, in 1950 there might have been 150 books of poetry published in a year. In 1997, there are probably about 1,500.
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And I watch my friends, most of whom are in academic life because most poets have to be in academic life, there aren't so many other ways to survive.
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And one of the odd things about it is that poetry is now fleeing from the academies to another institution, which is the performance poetry.
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The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.