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Poetry and Tobacco

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History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
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This podcast looks at the relationship between tobacco and poetic inspiration, through some popular comic poems.

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Series
History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
People
Abigail Williams
Laurence Williams
John Clargo
Keywords
#greatwriters
tobacco
eighteenth-century life
alexander pope
jonathan swift
miscellanies
eighteenth-century poetry
poetic inspiration
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 03/08/2011
Duration: 00:06:05

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