'A Modern Faust' by Vernon Scannell
March 27th 2018 Vernon Scannell is a well-known 20th century poet, not in the first rank but the author of some fine poems. Throughout my teaching career I have used his poem ‘A Case of Murder’ with younger students. Round about 1980, when I was teaching in England, at Old Swinford Hospital in Stourbridge, I acquired a play written by him. It was a BBC Schools radio play called ‘A Modern Faust’. Som
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