These poems span over 200 years and a range of emotions, from sorrow, to fear and hope.
- Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford
Without silences, we wouldn’t have the exquisite hush of medieval lullabies, the suspenseful secrets of the realist novel, or jagged modernist poetry.
Popularised during the second world war, the song has found new resonance during the Coronavirus pandemic.
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