Adventures in Poetry

First Fig, by Edna St Vincent Millay

Sunday 17 September 2006 16:30-17:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Repeated: Saturday 23 September 2006 23:30-0:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Peggy Reynolds explores the background, impact and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems.

This very short poem has had an extraordinary life. It is brief enough to quote in full, but its hinterland has stretched far and wide from the bohemia of Greenwich Village in New York where it was written nearly 100 years ago.

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Adventures in Poetry

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