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In “Crown,” Philip Gets Auden, Not Keats

By Robin Bates | Published: December 1, 2020

“The Crown” makes productive use of poetry to move the action. In three Season #3 episodes, we encounter Kipling, Shakespeare, Keats & Auden.

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Was the Moon Landing Poetic? A Debate

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2019

Friday As tomorrow will be the 50th anniversary of the lunar landing, I went looking for literature that marked the occasion. A useful New York Times article, written 20 years after the event, surveyed the field and alerted me to the two poems that I share today. Interestingly, not much was written, leading to the […]

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