POETRY RECITAL SOCIETY.
A BANUQfcJT TO DESCENDANTS OF BRITISH POriTS. deceived April 6, 10,45 p.m. LONDON, April 6. Lord Coleridge presided at a banquet promoted by the Poetry Reciial Society to bring together the descendants, or failing that, the nearest I family representations of the great i poets of the past. ' . The banquet was fixed^for! April sth, Swinburne's birthday, Tfiree hundred guests, including poets ana descendants, the Duke of Norfolk and Hon. A. Lyttelton. Representatives of Sir Philip Sidney, Suckling, Rochester, Sir Walter Scott, Milton, Edmond Spenser, Doyden. Pope, and seven members of -Shakespeare's family, were present. The tdaat of "The Immortal Memory of British Poets" was drunk in silence. Rangiuira, ? a Maori singer at present in London, in Maori costume, gave native songs and danced a war dance after the banquet.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10012, 7 April 1910, Page 5
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132POETRY RECITAL SOCIETY. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10012, 7 April 1910, Page 5
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