All these songs I have forgotten

On Virgil, Callimachus, Homer, Heraclitus, Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney

I suppose everyone recognises the particular nostalgia induced by hearing a song you haven’t heard for many years. Since the repertoire of songs for very young children is quite conservative, when you have small children yourself there’s the odd double effect of being reminded all at once of your own earliest childhood, and the anticipatory nostalgia of…