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Poem of the Day: ‘Lyke-Wake’

For Halloween, what better than a 15th-century Purgatory song in the Yorkshire dialect of English? The poem is unrelenting in its spookiness.

Gustave Doré, 'The Inferno,' Canto 13, etching print.
Gustave Doré, 'The Inferno,' Canto 13, etching print. Via Wikimedia Commons
EDITED BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

EDITED BY JOSEPH BOTTUM

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