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Victoria Moul has been reading and memorising poetry since she was nine. She recites it at the dentist (‘Aubade’, rather alarmingly) and she recited poems all through her labours when she gave birth. We talked about all sorts of poetry, from ancient to living poets. What I really admire about Victoria is how at ease she is with poems across many centuries and how she can read as a scholar and with great personal emotion. Her Substack Horace & friends is one of my favourites. For the last quarter of this interview, Victoria recited poems which we discussed very briefly, mostly from memory. She must know hundreds by heart.
We talked about
* Horace
* Shakespeare
* Ovid
* Claudian
* Prudentius
* Homer
* Pindar
* Sophocles
* George Herbert
* John Milton
* Ben Jonson
* Thomas Hardy
* W. H. Auden
* Keith Douglas
* A. E. Housman
* Basil Bunting
* Ezra Pound
* François de Malherbe
* Philip Gross
* Chris Childers (anthologist)
* Michael Schmidt (anthologist)
* Donald Davie
* Gillian Allnutt
* Marcel Proust
* Diana Wynne Jones
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Victoria Moul has been reading and memorising poetry since she was nine. She recites it at the dentist (‘Aubade’, rather alarmingly) and she recited poems all through her labours when she gave birth. We talked about all sorts of poetry, from ancient to living poets. What I really admire about Victoria is how at ease she is with poems across many centuries and how she can read as a scholar and with great personal emotion. Her Substack Horace & friends is one of my favourites. For the last quarter of this interview, Victoria recited poems which we discussed very briefly, mostly from memory. She must know hundreds by heart.
We talked about
* Horace
* Shakespeare
* Ovid
* Claudian
* Prudentius
* Homer
* Pindar
* Sophocles
* George Herbert
* John Milton
* Ben Jonson
* Thomas Hardy
* W. H. Auden
* Keith Douglas
* A. E. Housman
* Basil Bunting
* Ezra Pound
* François de Malherbe
* Philip Gross
* Chris Childers (anthologist)
* Michael Schmidt (anthologist)
* Donald Davie
* Gillian Allnutt
* Marcel Proust
* Diana Wynne Jones
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