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Blithe Spirits

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3: Monsters. Alfred Tennyson 's Kraken and John Milton 's Leviathan, which he described in Paradise Lost, are well-known poetic monsters which have inspired awe amonggenerations of readers. Joanna Pinnock investigates the importance of monsters in verse and prose and discovers that some are more familiar than our ancestors could have imagined. For details see Monday

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Alfred Tennyson
Unknown:
John Milton
Readers:
Joanna Pinnock
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