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Batter My Heart: Growing Up and Growing Old with John Donne

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10/08/2014

BBC Radio 4 - Batter My Heart: Growing Up and Growing Old with John Donne

Ed Docx discovers that John Donne can be a poet for life.

Novelist Ed Docx thought John Donne was a young lover's poet. Now as he nears his middle years, he finds the poet is still keeping him company.

Novelist Ed Docx grew up with John Donne's love poems and found them useful billets doux with his early girlfriends. Now not so young he has been surprised by how as he has grown up so the poetry of Donne has kept him company. Talking to three scholars - a young reader of Donne, a middle aged one and an elderly one, and armed with a stack of Bob Dylan records (another artist good for all ages) Ed Docx discovers how Donne batters the heart of us all through life. 

Producer Tim Dee.

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