How Walsingham was treated in ballad/poetry, with the Pynson Ballad, of the 15th century, then the Wreck of Walsingham of the 1580s/90s, then Ophelia’s song in Hamlet whose words fit exactly Byrd’s Walsingham variations, then Manley Hopkins from 19th century and Robert Lowell’s great section of the Quaker Graveyard at Nantucket.

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