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A letter from The Times that was good enough to hang on another reader’s shower room wall. Praise indeed.
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Sir, I thought Michael Horovitz’s quotation from W. H. Auden (letter, June 22) about how poetry “cannot be turned into background noise” etc was so good that I have hung a copy on our shower room wall.

John Roberts
Stoke Abbott, Dorset