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An episode from 10/30/23: Tonight, I read a handful of poems about autumn:

• Laurence Binyon (1869-1943), from “The Burning of the Leaves”
• Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864), “The leaves are falling; so am I”
• Louise Glück (1943-2023), “All Hallows”
• John Keats (1795-1821), from “To Autumn”
• W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), “The Wild Swans at Coole”
• Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from “For a Wine Festival” and from “The Tributary Seasons”
• Frances Cornford (1886-1960), “All Souls”
• Edward Thomas (1878-1917), “Digging”
• Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), “A Sheep Fair”

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