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The Last Summer: the Dymock Poets, 1914
Eighty years ago, the Gloucestershire parish of Dymock was a rural haven for writers. Edward Thomas and Robert Frost were there, Rupert Brooke visited, and his poem The Soldierfirst appeared in the journal published there by the poets Lascelles Abercrombie , Wilfrid Gibson and John Drinkwater. Sean Street visits the village that was the centre of English poetry.
Producer Julian May. Repeated Friday 9.30pm

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Edward Thomas
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Robert Frost
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Rupert Brooke
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Lascelles Abercrombie
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Wilfrid Gibson
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John Drinkwater.
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Sean Street
Source: Radio Times

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