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God’s Grandeur
Read by Simon Russell Beale
God’s Grandeur - Gerard Manley Hopkins - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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Edgar Allan Poe
B. 1809 D. 1849
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe
Poet
Dan Burt
B. 1942
The verse flexes muscle after muscle...The writing...can hover and dance. It has genuine grace. - George Szirtes
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Ezra Pound
B. 1885 D. 1972
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. - Ezra Pound