Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness, in the fourth episode of series two of Modern-ish Poets.

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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 November 2020.

Further reading on MacNiece in the LRB:

Ian Hamilton: https://lrb.me/hamiltonmacneicepod

John Kerrigan: https://lrb.me/kerriganmacneicepod

Marilyn Butler: https://lrb.me/butlermacneicepod

Nick Laird: https://lrb.me/lairdmacneicepod

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