Modern-ish Poets: Series 2
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Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at the life and work of Charlotte Mew, who brought the Victorian art of dramatic monologue into the 20th century, and whose difficult experiences are often refracted through her damaged and marginalised characters.
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Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevismewpod
Penelope Fitzgerald: https://lrb.me/fitzgeraldmewpod
Susannah Clapp: https://lrb.me/clappmewpod
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 March 2021.