Poetry must resemble prose and both must accept the vocabulary of their time. Nor must there be any special subject matter - Tristram and lseult were not a more suitable theme than Paddington Railway Station.
For W.B. Yeats, poetry abandoned its obligations shortly after the Great War. but he was not the first reader to deplore the modern in verse.
Eric Griffiths , of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Presents a brief history of how unacknowledged legislators have represented the voices of their constituents through the voice of poetry.
Readers Martin Jarvis and Christopher Scott
Producer THOMAS sutcliffe followed by an interlude