Seamus Perry and Mark Ford continue their Close Readings 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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Music by Kieran Brunt / Produced by Sam Kinchin-Smith and Anthony Wilks

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