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First broadcast a century ago after a devastating storm sank a steam clipper off the Welsh coast with 450 deaths, the ...

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As Oxford Professor John Wain puts it in his 1986 introduction to The Oxford Library of English Poetry, “[this poetry is usually no more than ...