I've come to love Regent's Park during lockdown. It's been a garden and a jogging spot and a place to meet friends. (And Friends). And so I've been noticing it popping up in literature and books and stuff and I thought I'd catalogue those references here.
Nice little project, I thought.
Except someone's already created an absolutely brilliant bibliography of Regent's Park Literature and Music.
They don't have this lovely little bit from Alan Bennett's diaries though:
"1 April: Almost out of piety and a respect for tradition I filch a couple of branches from the base of a balsam poplar on the north side of Regent’s Park. The buds are hardly open and thus are briefly heavily scented. Now in a glass on the sitting-room mantelpiece they bring a flavour to the room as they have done every spring for the last forty years."