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Music Poems on the Underground (Set 76)

A collection of six posters with poems about music, from Hardy's birdsong in 'Proud Songsters' to D. H. Lawrence's tribute to music and memory in 'Piano', as well as Gillian Clarke's 'Ode to Joy' (After Schiller), a poem commissioned by Poems on the Underground.  The full set consists of:

• Caliban’s lines from The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
• ‘Maire Macrae’s Song’ by Kathleen Raine
• ‘Harmonica’ by Michael Longley
• ‘Proud Songsters’ by Thomas Hardy
• ‘Piano’ by D.H. Lawrence
•  ‘Ode to Joy’ (after Schiller) by Gillian Clarke