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Ross Wilson, Lecturer in Criticism, University of Cambridge

Valentine's Day: why you should send a love letter not a text – with help from some of English’s greatest writers

Love letters have a rich history as Valentine's Day gifts. AnnGeorgievna / Shutterstock

Most of us, these days, communicate via text message, email and posts on social media. The age of the letter, it seems, is past.

But there’s something a letter can communicate, that a WhatsApp message or Instagram Story can’t. Having spent a lot of the last ten years thinking about different forms of writing, I want to suggest that we should write more letters – specifically, more love letters.

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