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One of my commenters, Carroll Powell, makes a very good suggestion. It's all very well having a go at overrated artists, but it's a lot more use flagging up underrated ones.

His own suggestions:

[N]o-one writes better than William Trevor or John McGahern (now, alas, dead). Shameful that neither have won the Booker.
I'll return to this theme, but off the top of my head, I'd say that Carl Nielsen deserves to be ranked with symphonic greats, that for all the popoularity of some of Elgar's music, he is nonetheless woefully underrated, and that there has been no finer British conductor than Vernon Handley.

Suggestions, please (in any art form).

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David Gillies

August 1st, 2007 5:02pm

Off the top of my head, some British composers that remain woefully underperformed and appreciated: Arthur Bliss, Frederick Delius, Malcolm Arnold. And I know you recently stated that you couldn't think of a truly great French composer. I'd like to nominate Gabriel Fauré in that category.

B. Mullen

August 1st, 2007 6:47pm

Andrew Zurcher, poet - http://www.landfillpress.co.uk/zurcher.html

dearieme

August 1st, 2007 7:30pm

Fauré passes the old "I heard this once being played loudly on the stereo of a dustcart in Cambridge" test.

Carroll Powell

August 3rd, 2007 9:37am

Dear Stephen, Tnank you for quoting me but please note that I am a woman. Douglas Dunn is also a poet worth reading.

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