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An episode from 1/18/22: Our anthology series presents a handful of poems from the past five centuries. How much or how little has our language changed since Roy Fisher remembered the London Blitz, Coleridge drew the greatest lesson he ever did from nature, and Emily Bront\xeb experienced a haunting evening?

A reading of five poems:

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• The Entertainment of War, by Roy Fisher (1930-2017)
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• Danse Russe, by William Carlos Williams (1883-1963)
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• \u201cThe night is darkening round me,\u201d by Emily Bront\xeb (1818-1848)
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• Work Without Hope, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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• Ode on Solitude, by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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