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In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.
To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:
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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 Hopkins in the LRB:
Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspod
Patricia Beer: https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspod
John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspod
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2020.
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In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.
To listen series one of Modern-ish Poets, and all our other Close Readings series in full, covering literature from Ancient Greece to the present day, sign up here:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/mp2apple
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/mp2sc
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 Hopkins in the LRB:
Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspod
Patricia Beer: https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspod
John Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspod
This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2020.

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