James Fenton

Hitchens remembered by Amis, Rushdie, Fenton, McEwan (PART 1)

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Duration: 14:30
Updated: 27 Nov 2012

On the birthday anniversary of Christopher Hitchens, Charlie Rose collects a group of his closest friends comprising Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie, James Fenton & Ian McEwan to discuss the life and legacy of the author of Hitch 22 and God is Not Great. This is Part 1.

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James Fenton - What would the dead want from us

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Duration: 1:25
Updated: 26 Nov 2012

Fenton at the Vanity Fair Hitchens memorial.

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Stephen Fry & friends on the life, loves and hates of Christopher Hitchens - IQ2 talks

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Duration: 45:45
Updated: 28 Nov 2012

hitchfry.intelligencesquared.com In this historic event, Stephen Fry and other friends of Christopher Hitchens came together to celebrate the life and work of this great writer, iconoclast and debater. Fry was joined on stage at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall by Richard Dawkins and the two discussed Hitch's unflinching commitment to the truth. Hollywood actor Sean Penn was beamed in from LA by Google+ and, between cigarette puffs, read from Hitch's acclaimed work, The Trial of Henry Kissinger. Five friends of Hitch spoke via satellite in New York: satirist Christopher Buckley and editor Lewis Lapham mused on Hitch's prowess as a journalist. 'Like a pot of gold', said Lapham. Martin Amis, Salman Rushdie and James Fenton delighted the audience with stories of Hitchens as a young man. Rushdie drew roars of laughter when he recounted a word game invented by Amis and Hitchens where the word 'love' is replaced with 'hysterical sex'. Particular favourites included Hysterical Sex in the Time of Cholera and Hysterical Sex Is All You Need. Watching the event with Hitch at his bedside in Texas, Hitch's wife Carol and novelist Ian McEwan provided an email commentary. 'His Rolls Royce mind is still purring beautifully', typed McEwan. The event was watched live by 2500 at the venue, and by thousands more in UK cinemas and online.

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James Fenton reads "Out of the East, "Blood and Lead" and "The Milk Fish Gatherers."

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Duration: 12:14
Updated: 16 Nov 2012

92Y.org - James Fenton reads "Out of the East, "Blood and Lead" and "The Milk Fish Gatherers", at 92Y on December 12, 2011. Follow 92Y on Facebook for exclusive content, photos, ticket giveaways and more: facebook.com

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The Skip - James Fenton

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Duration: 4:28
Updated: 27 Nov 2012

The Skip I took my life and threw it on the skip, Reckoning the next-door neighbours wouldn't mind If my life hitched a lift to the council tip With their dry rot and rubble. What you find With skips is - the whole community joins in. Old mattresses appear, doors kind of drift Along with all that won't fit in the bin And what the bin-men can't be fished to shift. I threw away my life, and there it lay And grew quite sodden. `What a dreadful shame,' Clucked some old bag and sucked her teeth: 'The way The young these days ... no values ... me, I blame...' But I blamed no one. Quality control Had loused it up, and that was that. 'Nough said. I couldn't stick at home. I took a stroll And passed the skip, and left my life for dead. Without my life, the beer was just as foul, The landlord still as filthy as his wife, The chicken in the basket was an owl, And no one said: `Ee, Jim-lad, whur's thee life?' Well, I got back that night the worse for wear, But still just capable of single vision ; Looked in the skip; my life - it wasn't there! Some bugger'd nicked it - without my permission. Okay, so I got angry and began To shout, and woke the street. Okay. Okay! And I was sick all down the neighbour's van. And I disgraced myself on the par-kay. And then ... you know how if you've had a few You'll wake at dawn, all healthy, like sea breezes, Raring to go, and thinking: `Clever you! You've got away with it.' And then, oh Jesus, It hits you. Well, that morning, just at six I woke, got ...

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Bronzino: Painter, Poet, Man

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Duration: 27:14
Updated: 16 Nov 2012

Learn more about this exhibition: The Drawings of Bronzino on view at the Met January 20, 2010 - April 18, 2010: tinyurl.com A lecture by James Fenton, Poet, Journalist, Critic This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503 - 1572), and presents nearly all the known drawings by or attributed to this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de' Medici and his beautiful wife, the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo. This monographic exhibition contains approximately sixty drawings from European and North American collections, many of which have never before been on public view. An afternoon of lectures focusing on this leading Italian Mannerist artist. Speakers include Elizabeth Cropper, Dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; James Fenton, poet, journalist, and critic; Lucia Meoni, independent scholar; Deborah Parker, Professor, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, University of Virginia; and Louis A. Waldman, Assistant Director for Programs, Villa I Tatti—The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, and Associate Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin. This Sunday at the Met is made possible in part by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York.

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"God, A Poem" by James Fenton (poetry reading)

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Duration: 2:06
Updated: 29 Aug 2012

America and Britain are countries divided by a common language. I think Oscar Wilde said that, but I haven't checked. A girl told me she had spent a morning in New York trying to buy Drawing Pins. She visited several stores which looked as though they should stock them. Eventually out of exasperation she explained what she wanted them for. The sales girl said "Why don't you use thumbtacks?" Figuratively, crumpet is a collective term for women considered as sexual snacks. Literally, a crumpet is a teacake usually toasted and buttered and possibly spread with jam or marmalade. Pissed always means "drunk" in Britain - it never means "angry", but "pissed-off" means "disgruntled" or "frustrated". Soteriology is the theological idea that finding Jesus will save your soul. The Diet of Worms is just a joke in the poem. Its other meaning is one of several venues that took place at Worms, which is a town in Germany on the Rhine. Usually it means the one when Martin Luther answered to charges of heresies brought by the Roman Catholic Church. Martin Luther prayed and fasted and answered honestly and bravely and when it became obvious that this wasn't going to work he ran away. en.wikipedia.org Maybe he had heard the wise saying of the Indigenous American people - or whatever this week's politically-correct expression is for Red Indians - "If you meet a bear, do nothing. If that doesn't work, run away. The painting is "The Eternal Father", 1570, by Paolo Veronese (Caliari)

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In Paris With You- James Fenton

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Duration: 2:25
Updated: 30 Oct 2012

A Contemporary poem by James Fenton (From the 'Relationships' cluster of 'Moon on the Tides' AQA GCSE Syllabus 2011 -Music by REM 'New Orleans Instrumental No. 1' -Narration by Peter Mccartney

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James Fenton reads his poem "Jerusalem"

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Duration: 3:18
Updated: 05 Nov 2012

"Listen to this poetry reading to hear the poet James Fenton read his poem ""Jerusalem,"" recorded at Farrar, Straus and Giroux's 50th anniversary party in 1996. James Fenton was born in Lincoln, England, in 1949. His volumes of poetry include Terminal Moraine, The Memory of War, Children in Exile, and Out of Danger. He was Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1994 to 1999. Learn more about poet James Fenton at us.macmillan.com

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James Fenton Poetry Forum

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Duration: 1:16
Updated: 13 Jul 2012

James Fenton read his poem "Wind" at The New School on October 3, 2011.

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"In Paris With You" by James Fenton (poetry reading)

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Duration: 1:29
Updated: 18 Sep 2012

I lived in Paris for while in the Rue d'Odessa, which is close to the Gare Montparnasse. I liked French girls, because if they liked me they'd to go to bed immediately. I also liked other things about them, their unabashability, their insouciance, their body hair. Irish girls at the time were not so uncomplicated. You'll recognise the "Dejeuner" by Renoir and "The Lovers" by Picasso. The other paintings are obviously modern. Why obviously? Well, because the artist has a camera with a wide angle lens and paints from photographs The unaided eye doesn't see things in such perspective. www.ejpaprocki.com This is the best study and analysis I could find on-line: helpmewithenglish.co.uk

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James Fenton reads his poem "The Milkfish Gatherers"

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Duration: 4:15
Updated: 16 Feb 2012

"Listen to James Fenton read his poem ""The Milkfish Gatherers,"" from his Selected Poems. The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has built a body of work breathtaking in its range and sensibility, from passionate political poems to intimate illuminations of love. Listen to this poetry reading and then learn more about the book Selected Poems at us.macmillan.com Read more about poet James Fenton at us.macmillan.com

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James Fenton

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Duration: 1:34
Updated: 29 Mar 2012

he's 13 and he goes to new mills secondry and he can SING! -Oh And sorry about the picture affect!

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The ABCs of James Fenton

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Duration: 0:59
Updated: 11 Mar 2010

You might have to pause it a few times if you want to read it. (The song is the solo from "Ten Years Gone" by Led Zeppelin.)

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In Paris With You by James Fenton

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Duration: 1:32
Updated: 14 Jun 2012

The footage was taken in my trip to Paris last March. The poem was written by James Fenton.

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In Paris with You by James Fenton

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Duration: 2:00
Updated: 18 Dec 2010

A Visual Poem created by PGCE English Students at Middlesex University

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In Paris With You by James Fenton Maddie Ryan Tucker

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Duration: 3:03
Updated: 15 Nov 2012

Video for In Paris With You Music from RebeccaAnneWauchunas English 10A1 Maddie Ryan Tucker

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Atlas - James Fenton

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Duration: 3:57
Updated: 04 Oct 2012

A live recording of a new song.

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In Paris With You written by James Fenton

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Duration: 2:05
Updated: 19 Jun 2012

"In Paris With You" is a poem I love and just had to recite; it was written by James Fenton. The photo ~ view over Paris, at dusk, from the Maine-Montparnasse tower ~ is used under the Creative Commons Attribution License; thanks to the author Benh Lieu Song. commons.wikimedia.org Thanks also to James Fenton for writing such a wonderful poem.

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James Fenton reads Philip Larkin's poem "The Explosion"

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Duration: 1:28
Updated: 17 Oct 2012

"Listen to this poetry reading to hear poet James Fenton read Philip Larkin's poem ""The Explosion."" Philip Larkin (1922-1985) was the recipient of innumerable honors, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Find Philip Larkin's Collected Poems at us.macmillan.com Read more about poet Philip Larkin at us.macmillan.com Read about poet James Fenton at us.macmillan.com

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Fireflies Of The Sea a poem by James Fenton

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Duration: 1:28
Updated: 11 Jul 2012

Fireflies of the Sea written by James Fenton and recited by Horace H. I love this poem and I love this recital. The photo of the firefly is used under the Creative Commons Attribution License: commons.wikimedia.org

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'In Paris With You' by James Fenton - analysis - AQA GCSE Eng Lit

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Duration: 4:28
Updated: 24 Sep 2012

'In Paris With You' by James Fenton - analysis - AQA GCSE Eng Lit

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James Fenton Quotes

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Duration: 3:18
Updated: 26 Nov 2012

What was your favorite James Fenton quote? 'Like' and leave a comment below, then jump over to quotetank.com and make a list of your favorites, so you'll never forget! We update our Twitter and Facebook with new quotes every few minutes, don't miss out! twitter.com | www.facebook.com If you enjoyed these quotes, please LIKE, SHARE and SUBSCRIBE! Who is James Fenton? an English poet, journalist and literary critic.

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