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Modern-ish Poets Series 2: W. B. Yeats
Season 3 Episode 7
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 cultur…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Emily Dickinson
Season 3 Episode 6
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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3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Derek Walcott
Season 3 Episode 5
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of the Saint Lucian Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the island poet and playwright surrounded by a…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Louis MacNeice
Season 3 Episode 4
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss the life and work of Louis MacNeice, the Irish poet of psychic divisions and authoritative fretfulness, in the fou…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Adrienne Rich
Season 3 Episode 3
In the third episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford turn to the life and work of Adrienne Rich, in whose poem…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Robert Frost
Season 3 Episode 2
Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Robert Frost, the great American poet of fences and dark woods. They discuss Frost’s difficul…
3 years, 5 months ago
Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Season 3 Episode 1
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 onl…
3 years, 5 months ago
Encounters with Medieval Women: Margery Kempe
Season 2 Episode 4
In the fourth and final episode in their miniseries, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the life and work of pilgrim, entrepreneur and visio…
3 years, 6 months ago
Encounters with Medieval Women: The Wife of Bath
Season 2 Episode 3
In the third episode in their series, Irina and Mary discuss Chaucer’s sexually voracious professional widow, stealth preacher, vivid storyteller and…
3 years, 6 months ago
Encounters with Medieval Women: Julian of Norwich
Season 2 Episode 2
In the second episode in their series, Irina Dumitrescu and Mary Wellesley look at the work of mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich, who wrote the …
3 years, 6 months ago