Dear Susanne,
Jane Austen, in Persuasion, suggests that folk who are depressed should avoid reading poetry.... She's probably got a point: so many poets are miserable self-obsessed b****rs like Plath! On the other hand, when us students were depressed in the 60s, we used to listen to a Leonard Cohen LP and then we knew there was someone who felt worse than we did. Cheered us up no end. The Rev Sydney Smith said read humour and get out a lot.
Cheers
Ally Kerr
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