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ELIZABETHAN POETRY

on Third Programme

A group of three programmes
I-Sir John Davies
' Nosce Teipsum
Or the Original Nature and Immortality of the Soul'
T. S. Eliot, in a famous essay, found the same kinds of interest in this late sixteenth-century poem as in some passages of Dante. JOHN SPARROW, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, selects and presents excerpts to bring out both its melody and its passion.

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