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Midlands Millennium: Literary inspiration in them thar hills; Chris Upton looks back at the birth of Langland's Piers Ploughman and, right, Ross Reyburn considers its legacy.(News)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 19990327
Author:Upton, Chris

The Malvern Hills have provided many a poet with inspiration over the centuries.

John Masefield and Elizabeth Barrett Browning grew up in the shadow of them, and for a teenager called Byron they were the first indication that England was not as flat as he thought.

But the Malverns did not have to wait for the Romantics to find an appreciative observer. Long before that - 500 years before, in fact, - a young man took a nap there, a dreaming sleep that would last the rest of his life.

In a summer season when soft was the sun,

I wrapped up in wool as if I were a ...

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