Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them

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par Rory Waterman, Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Modern and Contemporary Literature, Nottingham Trent University

Historically, poets have had less to say about pandemics than you might imagine. Hardly any English-language poetry written during successive waves of bubonic plague focused directly on the effects of the disease, for instance, and exceptions often had a purpose external to any we’d normally now ascribe to poetry.

The 14th century monk and poet John Lydgate’s Doctrine for Pestilence (c.1415) is a wonderful…

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