THE GREAT DEAD.
IN HONOR OF THE POETS. &j Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received April 6, 10.45 p.m. London, April 6. > Lord Coleridge presided at a banquet promoted by the Poetry Recital Society to bring together descendants, or, failing that, the nearest family representatives of great poets of the past. The banquet was fixed for sth AprilSwinburne's birthday. The three hundred guests -were largely made up of poets and poets' descendants, and included the Duke of Norfolk, the Right Hon. A. Lyttelton, and representatives of Sir Philip Sidney, Suckling, Rochester, Scott, Milton, Spenser, Dryden, Pope, and seven members of Shakespeare's family. A toast to the immortal memory of British poets was drunk in silence. Rangiuia, in Maori costume, gave native songs and a war-dance after the banquet.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 357, 7 April 1910, Page 5
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125THE GREAT DEAD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 357, 7 April 1910, Page 5
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