As landlords’ enclosures of villages and commonages during England’s industrial revolution drove landless countrymen into the maws of the poet William Blake’s “dark Satanic mills”, a romantic nostalgia for the countryside began to grow.

“If the written word could cure rheumatism I think hers might, like a dock leaf laid on a sting”

Australian duo Dead Can Dance have ended a long silence by recording their new album Anastasis in Ireland, says Ed Power