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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 Ö÷²¥´óÐãr, and reads his own work On First Looking into Keats' Poems in response to it, written especially for this programme.

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Ö÷²¥´óÐã World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project