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Podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford · Political Poems: 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth
London Review of Books
Wordsworth was not unusual among Romantic poets for his enthusiastic support of the French Revolution, but he stands apart from his contemporaries for...
1 week ago
Podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford · Political Poems: 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice
London Review of Books
In his long 1938 poem, Louis MacNeice took many of the ideals shared by other young writers of his time – a desire for relevance, responsiveness and,...
1 month ago
Political Poems: ‘Goblin Market’ by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones
London Review of Books
'Goblin Market' was the title poem of Christina Rossetti's first collection, published in 1862, and while she disclaimed any allegorical purpose in it,...
2 months ago
Podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford · Political Poems: 'The Masque of Anarchy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
London Review of Books
Shelley's angry, violent poem was written in direct response to the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819, in which a demonstration in favour of...
5 months ago
Podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford · Political Poems: 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman
London Review of Books
Whitman wrote several poetic responses to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. He came to detest his most famous, 'O Captain! My Captain!
3 months ago
Podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford · Political Poems: 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen
London Review of Books
Wilfred Owen wrote 'Strange Meeting' in the early months of 1918, shortly after being treated for shell shock at Craiglockhart hospital in Edinburgh,...
4 months ago
Podcast: Seamus Perry and Mark Ford · Political Poems: 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats
London Review of Books
Yeats's great poem about the uprising of Irish republicans against British rule on 24 April 1916 marked a turning point in Ireland's history and in Yeats's...
7 months ago
Political Poems: ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
London Review of Books
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's deeply disturbing 1847 poem about a woman escaping slavery and killing her child was written to shock its intended white female...
6 months ago
Seamus Perry · Isn’t London hell? Evelyn Waugh
London Review of Books
Readers have thought that Waugh's books divided on much more rudimentary lines: the good ones, which are funny, and...
15 months ago
Adidas, Auden, and the author: on Zoom with Mark Ford
Cherwell
Cherwell is in conversation with John Ashbery specialist, UCL academic, poet, contributor to the London Review of Books, Mark Ford.
9 months ago