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Ernesto Cardenal: Committed Poet

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ROBERT PRING-MILL , Fellow Of St Catherine's College, Oxford. presents a selection of the poems of Ernesto Cardenal , one of the most notable Latin American socially committed poets in the generation following that of Neruda. Born in 1925 and ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1965, Cardenal now leads a small progressive commune on an island in Lake Nicaragua.
Robert Pring-Mill 's English translations of his poems are read by HUGH BURDEN , while the Spanish originals were recorded by the poet himself on a recent visit to this country. Producer ADRIAN JOHNSON

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Robert Pring-Mill
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Ernesto Cardenal
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Lake Nicaragua.
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Robert Pring-Mill
Read By:
Hugh Burden
Producer:
Adrian Johnson
Source: Radio Times

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