The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater by Ben Harker - 9781739173012

Name: The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater by Ben Harker - 9781739173012
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Montagu Slater (1902-1956) is best-known today as the librettist of Benjamin Britten\u2019s opera Peter Grimes (1945). But he was also a novelist, playwright, journalist, scriptwriter \u2013 and a poet. \nA committed communist from the late 1920s, he was a leading figure in the cultural world of the mid-century left, and co-founded and edited Left Review in the 1930s and was theatre editor of Our Time in the 1940s. He worked with Britten, John Grierson, W.H. Auden and Alberto Cavalcanti at the GPO Film Unit, where he scripted the influential Coal Face (1935). His novels included Haunting Europe (1934) about the rise of Hitler, Once a Jolly Swagman (1944) about speedway racing (filmed starring Dirk Bogarde) and Englishmen with Swords (1949) about the English Civil War. His abiding anti-imperialism\n\nCollected Poems of Montagu Slater\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the pr;