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Afternoon Reading: Lyrical Ballads: Episode 1: Lewti and The Thorn

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Episode 1: Lewti and The Thorn

Lewti and The Thorn

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Coleridge's Lewti and Wordsworth's The Thorn.

The poems Lewti, Coleridge's 'love chant' to an enigmatic and stony-hearted woman, and The Thorn, Wordsworth's ballad about a mysterious outcast.

In today's episode we hear the poems 'Lewti' - Coleridge's 'love-chant' to an enigmatic and stony-hearted woman and 'The Thorn', Wordsworth's ballad about a mysterious outcast and the superstitions that the locals have attached to her. Recorded on location in Coleridge's Cottage in Nether Stowey, Somerset and in the Quantock Hills. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Julius D'Silva
William Wordsworth - Mark Meadows
The Captain - Peter Gruffydd

Adapted and produced by Emma Harding.

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A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798

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