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Poetry and the Turning World: Technology
When Robert Browning was asked to become the first poet to be recorded, on an Edison wax cylinder in 1889, he forgot his own poem. In the second episode of their series, Sarah Howe and Sandeep Parmar consider what happen...
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Poetry and the Turning World: Technology is an episode from The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books. When Robert Browning was asked to become the first poet to be recorded, on an Edison wax cylinder in 1889, he forgot his own poem. In the...
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Published Jun 14, 2026, 90:30 long, audio available.
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