SIR – Rupert Christiansen made the point that the Gothic movement of the late 18th and 19th centuries inspired work in the visual arts and literature, but apparently not in music (Features, July 9).

Historic ballads known as laoidhean which were a central part of traditional gaelic culture during the late Middle Ages are to be brought back to life with a concert at the National Library of ...

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Andrew Marr and some of Britain’s most loved poets will mark National Poetry Day on BBC Radio 4 as We British: An Epic In Poetry tells the story of Britain through its poetry – from the earliest ...

It is the kind of year when millions are entertained by a video of four people dancing their way to a graveyard, a coffin on their shoulders. With a raging pandemic, is it surprising that dark humour ...

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