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A Century of Poetry

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' Everybody got down off his stilts: henceforth nobody drank absinthe with his black coffee, nobody went mad, nobody committed suicide, nobody joined the Catholic church.'
(w. B. YEATS on the end of Victorianism)
Anthony Thwaite explores the variety of 19th-century poetry. 10: 1890-99
Readers GARY WATSON
PAUL WEBSTER
Producer FRASER STEEL BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the RSC)

Contributors

Unknown:
B. Yeats
Unknown:
Anthony Thwaite
Readers:
Gary Watson
Readers:
Paul Webster
Unknown:
Paul Webster
Source: Radio Times

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