Swirls and secrets - Oxford Abridged Short Talks
When we declare our love in a Valentine's card, we keep the most important bit - our identity - hidden. For centuries, the expression of romantic adoration h...
I'm going to be talking today
um, as it says about some work that I've been doing
editing letters some letters by Jonathon Swift
some Love letters that he wrote to two women in Dublin
But I wanted to start off by locating those letters
within a literary tradition of romantic love
and particularly St Valentine's Day
And I was thinking about Valentine's day and what it means
and the conventions around it
and it seems to me that one of the funny things about Valentine's day
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