Plagues in literature. 20.04.20
Welcome to The Plague Pit – issue number 8 This issue, I’m delighted to welcome another new contributor to the website. Mr Tom Quayle is an English and Div Don at Winchester College and has kindly provided the following account. That the history of language and literature is crosshatched by the history of pandemic, disease and death is a truism that we have been viscerally reminded of over the last four months. I wonder if it is simultaneously too brutal…