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  • SAINT AND SCARECROW -- The Life and Work of Lilian Bowes-Lyon by Howard Watson, from Old Poetry
    One-time Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis dedicated the title poem of his 1957 collection, Pegasus and other poems, to her memory, William Plomer wanted to marry her and Philip Larkin selected one of her more epic works for The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse. Yet the life and work of Lilian Bowes-Lyon is largely forgotten and her novels and her collections of poetry remain out of print. Considering her literary – and royal – connections, as well as the success she achieved in her fairly brief life, cut tragically short by illness, the poetry of Lilian Bowes-Lyon is mostly an unknown pleasure. Her name is absent from national biographies of public or literary figures of the last century in British life. Yet in his recent biography of the late Queen Mother, there is no mention of Lilian, even though other members of her family are well represented.
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    on At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me by A P Herbert, 4 hours ago
    From guest ONLY_SKANKEH (contact)
    HEH HEH HEH thats so totally me at the move theater........ enev though im never in behind someone cuz i always sit in the very front row XDD this is humoris


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    on Sonnet 18: "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?..." by William Shakespeare, 5 hours ago

    question ding ding

    From guest Miranda (contact)
    so long lives her beauty in this poem, it will forever last. it is true because we are reading this poem now and people will be reading it forever.


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    on Our Casuarina Tree by Toru Dutt, 9 hours ago

    My Favorite poem since my 9th Standard in 2003

    From guest hannan ABDUL (contact)
    I loved thz poem since 2003whn i wz in 9th standard,it used to b a one op poem in my syllabus,but i loved dat and appreciated to tore dutt,from where he got such a nice experiance about a usual casurina tree,the best part of thz poem,the reader can't stop himself to dive in a Imaginary Ocean,and forgt all about the surrounding atmosphere,

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