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The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems
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The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem', and Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy.
A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement.
The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem' in which he disputes the traditional association of the nightingale with melancholy. And Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy. Recorded on location in the Quantock Hills, Somerset and in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva
William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows
Adapted by Emma Harding.
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Sun 3 Jul 2011
00:30
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