Seamus Perry and Mark Ford return for a second series of their acclaimed, 'revolutionary, *****' (The Times) podcast series looking at the lives and works of poets in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Seamus Perry is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College London.
Modern-ish Poets is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books.
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Seamus Perry and Mark Ford return for a second series of their acclaimed, 'revolutionary, *****' (The Times) podcast series looking at the lives and works of poets in the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Seamus Perry is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College London.
Modern-ish Poets is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books.
To listen to the first series of Modern-ish Poets, and to Seamus and Mark's twelve-part series The Long and Short, sign up to the Close Readings subscription:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadings
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On the centenary of the publication of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ in book form, Mark and Seamus finish the second series of Modern-ish Poets by considering how revolutionary the poem was, the numerous meanings that have been drawn out of it, and its lasting influence.
To listen to series one of Modern-ish Poets and all our other Close Readings series, sign up here:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadings
Further reading on Eliot in the LRB:
Frank Kermode: https://lrb.me/kermodeeliotpod
Dan Jacobson: https://lrb.me/jacobsoneliotpod
Barbara Everett: https://lrb.me/everetteliotpod
Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/fordeliotpod
Terry Eagleton: https://lrb.me/eagletoneliotpod
Series one of Modern-ish Poets looks at Philip Larkin, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Thomas Hardy, Stevie Smith, A. E. Housman, Wallace Stevens, Sylvia Plath, Seamus Heaney and Robert Lowell.
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2022.
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