Poetry Extra: The Poetry of History

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Poetry Extra: The Poetry of History - Easter 1916, by WB Yeats

The Poetry of History - Easter 1916, by WB Yeats

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, The Poetry of History - Easter 1916, by WB Yeats

Daljit Nagra selects interesting poems from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects The Poetry of History - Easter 1916 as Jonathan Bate travels to Dublin. From April 2006.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects The Poetry of History - Easter 1916.   

Jonathan Bate examines historical events through the poetry they inspired.

Easter, 1916 by W.B. Yeats

With the poet Theo Dorgan, novelist Anne Enright and historian Diarmaid Ferriter, Jonathan visits places where Irish history was 'changed, changed utterly' and, Yeats declared, 'a 'terrible beauty' was born, - the General Post Office in Dublin, the hub of the Easter Rising 90 years ago, and Kilmainham Gaol, where several of the rebels were executed.

The poem is read by Jim Norton.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.

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