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Poet's Corner

A BTC-TV Channel 13 Presentation, with your host Ben Woestenburg

It’s time for another reading of Byron’s CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE, as well as Shakespeare’s SONNET #5. Really? #5? Already? Time doesn’t just fly, it marches along. I don’t know how well the Sonnets are coming across, because no one’s told me if I’m any good at this, or not. Not that it matters, I suppose. I read it like I think it should be read. The only other person I’d ever heard read a sonnet (besides Patrick Stewart), was Dame Judy Dench. She actually has what one could say, is a photographic memory — which would come in handy as an actor, one would think. I saw something last week, and it reminded me of this:

Anyway, as you know, this is supposed to be behind the paywall. I just never know if it works.

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