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There have been previous examples of popular musicians reciting famous poems but this, as far as can be determined, is the first time an iconic singer (Marianne Faithfull) has collaborated with an avant-garde composer (Warren Ellis, from Dirty Three and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and delivered an entire recording of 11 poems from Englandâs most famous Romantic poets â two from Lord Byron, one from Lord Tennyson, two from Percy Bysshe Shelley, one from Thomas Hood, three from John Keats and one from William Wordsworth.
And these are not esoteric poetic byways. They are the major poems of the period:
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