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The Lyrics – John Keats and Andrew Motion
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion talks about Keats and reads his own poem written in response
Works by John Keats, the prolific English lyric poet who died in 1821, aged only 25. The Poet Laureate (and biographer of Keats) Andrew Motion talks about Keats's sonnet, On First Looking into Chapman's Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔr, and reads his own work On First Looking into Keats' Poems in response to it, written especially for this programme.
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