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.
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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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Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the lives and works of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, close friends and leading lights of the New York School, who sought to create an anti-academic, hedonistic poetry, freeing themselves from the puritan American tradition.
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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.
Further reading on O'Hara and Ashbery in the LRB:
C.K. Stead: https://lrb.me/steadashberypod
John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyashberypod
Stephanie Burt: https://lrb.me/burtashberypod
John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganashberypod
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in June 2022.
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Charlotte Mew
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted through her damaged and marginalised characters.
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Further reading on Mew in the LRB:
Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevismewpod
Penelope Fitzgerald: https://lrb.me/fitzgeraldmewpod
Susannah Clapp: https://lrb.me/clappmewpod
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 March 2021.
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W.B. Yeats
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford continue their series with a look at the life and work of W.B. Yeats, from his early quest for a mythological Irish culture, to his shift towards the Modernist experiment, and preoccupation with the ‘murderousness of the world’.
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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.
Read more in the LRB:
Seamus Deane: https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod
Michael Wood: https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod
Colm Tóibín: https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2021.
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Emily Dickinson
Seamus Perry, Mark Ford and Joanne O’Leary discuss the life and work of Emily Dickinson—her dashes, death instinct and obliquity.
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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 June 2021.
Further reading on Dickinson in the LRB:
Joanne O'Leary: https://lrb.me/olearydickinsonpod
Mark Ford: https://lrb.me/forddickinsonpod
Danny Karlin: https://lrb.me/karlindickinsonpod
Tom Paulin: https://lrb.me/paulindickinsonpod
Susan Eilenberg: https://lrb.me/eilenbergdickinsonpod
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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.
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