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God’s Grandeur
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
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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
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Poem
The Mighty Dead
Sonnet 43
Read by Imtiaz Dharker
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Bavarian Gentians
Read by Glyn Maxwell
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Inversnaid
Read by Alice Oswald