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Sleep and Relax ASMR

The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben

Sleep and Relax ASMR

Sleep and Relax ASMR

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4.1926 Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On this episode we read "The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Mackworth Dolben," a supremely interesting read courtesy of Public Domain Review.org (https://publicdomainreview.org/). Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to this episode of Sleep and Relax ASMR.

0:21.6

This episode we read the essay published on Public Domain Review.org titled

0:28.0

The Strangely Troubled Life of Digby Macworth Dolbin. Here is the overview. In 1911 the soon to be poet

0:39.0

laureate Robert Bridges published the poem of Digby Macworth Dolbin, a school friend who had

0:45.6

drowned to death at the age of 19, almost half a century earlier.

0:50.8

Carl Miller looks at Bridges' lengthy introduction in which he tells of the short and tragic life of the boy, with whom fellow poet Gerard Manley Hopkins was reportedly bezited.

1:02.0

B-E-S-O-T-D. bea sot d i was interested in reading this piece i was interested in reading this piece because

1:09.1

i'm a fan of interesting tales and you know individuals especially those that have had very

1:16.2

fortunate or unfortunate lives you know most of us I believe live somewhere in the

1:22.1

middle good and bad things happen Most of us I believe live somewhere in the middle.

1:23.3

Good and bad things happen over the course of time.

1:27.6

But then there are outliers that seemingly have all the good,

1:31.2

others all the bad. Met know, metaphorically speaking of course.

1:36.9

So the title kind of caught my attention and you know just with that overview I thought

1:42.0

it would be worth learning about this very interesting

1:47.2

individual.

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