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Regular listeners to the World Tonight programme will know that it has tried to inject a little poetry into this somewhat prosaic election campaign.

To continue on this artistic track, the programme is looking at how general election campaigns have inspired great poetry or literature. The editor of the Times Literary Supplement Stig Abell has racked his brain and combed his library to see whether electioneering throughout the ages has produced any creative works.

(Photo: Scene from Charles Dickens first novel The Pickwick Papers - Chaos at the Eatanswill election)
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