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Adventures in Poetry - Series 10 - Adlestrop

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Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of some well-loved poems. Written in 1915 about a two-minute stop at a railway station in the Cotswolds, this poem has long been loved for its evocation of high summer, rural England and the intimation of changes to come.