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    Jiggery-wokery

    Jun 30, 2021 3 minutes

    A friend who teaches English at one of our more august institutions says her students want a trigger warning on W B Yeats’s Leda and the Swan.

    For the lucky few who don’t know the term, trigger warnings – the worst part of the wokery plaguing the study of literature – are given to protect those who have suffered a trauma from content they may find upsetting.

    describes how Zeus, in the form of a swan, assaults Leda: ‘A sudden blow: the great

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