http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/06/the-poet-and-the-pope/ • • • Being a journal by artist and designer John Coulthart, cataloguing interests, obsessions and passing enthusiasms. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:18:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/06/the-poet-and-the-pope/comment-page-1/#comment-5502 John Sun, 07 Jan 2007 13:54:46 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1222#comment-5502 That's interesting, don't think I'd heard of that but I can imagine his family would still feel aggrieved. Although he had a terrible end to his life he's had the last laugh. His name is on one of the windows in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey and he has a statue in Covent Garden. That’s interesting, don’t think I’d heard of that but I can imagine his family would still feel aggrieved. Although he had a terrible end to his life he’s had the last laugh. His name is on one of the windows in Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey and he has a statue in Covent Garden.

]]> http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/01/06/the-poet-and-the-pope/comment-page-1/#comment-5483 Nathalie Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:05:20 +0000 http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/?p=1222#comment-5483 And the irony of it all is that although a rather intolerant Vatican is celebrating Wilde's wits, over a century after the man's death the Crown of England is still to grant him the pardon I am told it is petitionned yearly for. And the irony of it all is that although a rather intolerant Vatican is celebrating Wilde’s wits, over a century after the man’s death the Crown of England is still to grant him the pardon I am told it is petitionned yearly for.

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