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Poets and Poetry
Passages from English verse, from Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf to Shakespeare’s sonnets, Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade, Kipling’s If and many more.
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‘The Overland Mail’
By Rudyard Kipling
A tribute to the postal workers of British India, and to the kind of empire they helped to build.
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‘Recessional’
A heartfelt plea for humility at the height of Britain’s Empire.
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The Nightingale and the Glow Worm
By William Cowper
A kind of Aesop’s Fable in verse, about mutual respect among those with different talents.
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Ring out the Old, Ring in the New
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson
For Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Christmas was a time to let the dead past bury its dead.
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Christmas Bells
The sounds of an English country Christmas helped Tennyson in his deep mourning for an old friend.
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Six Honest Serving-Men
A professional journalist and author recognises that he has met his match
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