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A Century of Poetry

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Everybody got down off his stilts: henceforth nobody drank absinthe with his black coffee; nobody went mad; nobody committed suicide; nobody joined the Catholic church.
(w. B. YEATS on the end of Victorianism)
Anthony Thwaite explores 19th-century poetry. 1890-99 Readers
GARY WATSON , PAUL WEBSTER Producer FRASER STEEL
BBC Manchester
(Paul Webster is a member of the RSC)

Contributors

Unknown:
B. Yeats
Unknown:
Anthony Thwaite
Readers:
Gary Watson
Readers:
Paul Webster
Unknown:
Paul Webster
Source: Radio Times

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