Political Poems

A podcast by London Review of Books

Categories:

Arts Education History

12 Episodes

  1. ‘Little Gidding’ by T.S. Eliot

    Published: 12/28/2024

  2. ‘Station Island’ by Seamus Heaney

    Published: 11/28/2024

  3. 'The Prelude' (books 9 and 10) by William Wordsworth

    Published: 10/28/2024

  4. 'Autumn Journal' by Louis MacNeice

    Published: 9/28/2024

  5. 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti, feat. Shirley Henderson and Felicity Jones

    Published: 8/28/2024

  6. 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd' by Walt Whitman

    Published: 7/28/2024

  7. 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen

    Published: 6/28/2024

  8. 'The Masque of Anarchy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Published: 5/28/2024

  9. 'The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    Published: 4/28/2024

  10. 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats

    Published: 3/28/2024

  11. 'Spain 1937' by W.H. Auden

    Published: 2/28/2024

  12. 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland' by Andrew Marvell

    Published: 1/28/2024

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Seamus Perry and Mark Ford consider poems that have been understood, admired and perhaps criticised for their politics, ranging across several hundred years of literary history.Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College, London, and Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford.Political Poems is part of the Close Readings podcast collection from the London Review of Books. Listen to this episode ad free, and get full access to all our Close Readings series, including more from Mark and Seamus:Sign up to the Close Readings subscription to listen ad free and to all our series in full:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/ppapplesignupIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/ppsignup Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.