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The Joys of Cricket

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History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
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This podcast looks at cricket seen through eighteenth-century eyes, focussing on a poem by James Dance, called 'Cricket: An Heroic Poem.'.

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History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems
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Adam Rounce
Keywords
poems
#greatwriters
sport
poetry
poem
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 12/12/2011
Duration: 00:07:52

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