After more than 18,000 votes were cast TS Eliot is given the title of 'nation's favourite poet' by an online poll hosted by the BBC to mark National Poetry Day.
The results of the online poll saw Eliot win in a "tight final", according to the BBC, narrowly pipping John Donne to the post. In an eclectic top 10, Rastafarian dub poet Benjamin Zephaniah came in third (the only living poet to make the top 10), while no female poets – not even poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy or Sylvia Plath - made the final line-up, which was rounded out by Wilfred Owen, Philip Larkin, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, John Betjeman, John Keats and Dylan Thomas.
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Arena: TS Eliot
Thurs 8 Oct 2009 22:25 BBC Four
Arena presents a profile of TS Eliot which, with unprecedented co-operation from the Eliot Estate, tells the story of one of the 20th century's most celebrated and elusive writers. Rpt.
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T.S. Eliot reading The Waste Land. Recording of the poem by the poet himself.
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Monday 12 October 2009
TS Eliot is the Nation's Favourite Poet!
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