Letters to the Editor
Jul 27, 2022
2 minutes
Mark Hedges
Letter of the week
The power of poetry
READ with interest your article on dropping great poets from the curriculum (). In the 1960s, I grew up in a poor Glasgow tenement and my understanding of the countryside was very limited. When we were 13, Mr Atkin introduced us to Keats’s. He started reading: ‘Ah, bitter chill it was!/The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;/The hare limp’d trembling through
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