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The Character of a Happy Life by Sir Henry Wotton | Pause for Poetry Season 1, Episode 3
Manage episode 294552832 series 2933655
Diplomat (and spy?) Sir Henry Wotton wrote several well-known poems which were first published in the posthumous collection Reliquiae Wottonianae. Do you think he manages to capture the character of a happy life? How different is having a happy life today compared to being an aristocrat in Elizabethan times?
https://poets.org/poem/character-happy-life
Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp
20 episodes
Manage episode 294552832 series 2933655
Diplomat (and spy?) Sir Henry Wotton wrote several well-known poems which were first published in the posthumous collection Reliquiae Wottonianae. Do you think he manages to capture the character of a happy life? How different is having a happy life today compared to being an aristocrat in Elizabethan times?
https://poets.org/poem/character-happy-life
Find out more about Pause for Poetry at http://airglowaudio.com/pfp
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