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An animated William Barnes reads his poem

June 30th, 2010 by Knobby Leave a reply »

I came across this on YouTube. Jim Clark takes pictures of long dead poets and audio recordings of their poems and marries them together to give the impression of the poet reading his poem.

Here he presents Dorset’s very own William Barnes performing The Humstrum.

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Claire says:

4 July 2010 at 8:44 pm

Very clever.

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