Letter: John Bayley obituary

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/16/john-bayley-obituary-letter

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David Giles writes: I was lucky enough to be taught by the “BBC” trio – John Bayley, John Buxton and David Cecil – at New College, Oxford. Bayley did indeed turn his stutter into an art form that seized one’s attention. I shall ever remember his reciting the lines of William Cowper: “The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade, And the whispering sound of the cool colonnade”.