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ENGLISH POEMS BY CHARLES D'ORLEANS

on Third Programme

1391-1465
A selection made and introduced by Rayner Heppenstall Read by Alan Wheatley
It seems not to be generally known that the greatest French poet of his time also wrote nearly 7,000 lines of verse in English, including 121 ballades and almost as many roundels, together with longer pieces. He lived in this country for twenty-five years, having been taken prisoner at AgincourL

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