Hardy to Larkin

Alan Bennett has published a book of his favourite poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin. Here are mine:

• John Betjeman - A Subaltern's Love Song
• Thomas Hardy - Afterwards
• Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
• John Betjeman - Christmas
• WH Auden - Funeral Blues
• AE Housman - Into My Heart an Air that Kills
• WH Auden - Night Mail
• Louis MacNiece - Prayer before Birth
• John Betjeman - Slough
• Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
• Thomas Hardy - The Ruined Maid
• WH Auden - The Shield of Achilles
• Louis MacNiece - The Sunlight on the Garden
• Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse
• Philip Larkin - Whitsun Weddings