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'Work with hope' – a poet and classics scholar on facing the flood of bad news

  • Written by Rachel Hadas, Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Patience is wearing thin. Not only are we all bone-weary of the pandemic; rising hopes have made the current precarious state of confusion and fear, vigorous variants and stubborn vaccine rejection all the more frustrating.

We thought we were almost out of the woods, but...

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