Tim Kendall

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Gender Male
Industry Education
Occupation Professor of English Literature
Location Colyton, Devon, United Kingdom
Introduction Professor of English at Exeter. Editor, Poetry of the First World War (OUP). Presenter, Ivor Gurney: The Poet Who Loved the War (BBC TV, 2014). President of The War Poets Association.
Interests My family and other animals, Opera, Reading and Writing Poetry, Plymouth Argyle, Swimming, Water Polo
Favorite Movies The Ladykillers (1955), Farewell My Concubine, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Withnail & I, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Back to the Future, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Rear Window
Favorite Music Carmen, Don Giovanni, Bluebeard's Castle, Verklärte Nacht, Gianni Schicchi, Porgy and Bess, Prince Igor, La Traviata, Flanders and Swann
Favorite Books The Psalms, Shakespeare's Tragedies, Paradise Lost, Troilus and Criseyde, Kim, Debits and Credits, In Parenthesis, The Farmer's Bride, North of Boston, Keith Douglas: The Complete Poems, The Spire, Ariel, 77 Dream Songs, The Triumph of Love