Horae Canonicae - Vespers
Friday 6 April 2007 19:00-19:05 (Radio 3)
In his poem for the evening office of Good Friday, Auden imagines two aspects of humanity: the Arcadians hark back to Eden and the Utopians look forward to a world that is just, if oppressive.
But, as the Archbishop of Canterbury asserts in his introduction, because of the death earlier today, a reconciliation of these two becomes possible to imagine.
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