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"(In My) Solitude" (1934) composed by Duke Ellington, with lyrics by Eddie DeLange, Irving Mills

Uploaded on Feb 10, 2012
Vers De Societe - Philip Larkin
Audio from Philip Larkin :The Sunday Sessions.
Footage from Down Cemetery Road, a 1964 BBC Documentary, showing Philip Larkin interviewed by John Betjeman.
re you happy in solitude? Really happy? All of the time. This has been pondered on by many thinkers and writers in various texts - poetry, essays, novels, song. articles, musings and lectures. Indeed we all experience solitude. It seems we crave solitude at times and, at other times seek out company to avoid solitude. But we are not always lonely in solitude or just ...... alone
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The Art of Focus by David Brooks

The Lake Isle of Innisfree read by WB Yeats