Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Robert Frost
<p>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 difficult early life as an occasional poultry farmer and teacher, his arrival in England in 1912 amid the flowering of Georgian poetry, and his emergence as the first 20th-century professional poet, whose version of the American wilderness myth, full of mischief and foreboding, took him to packed concert halls and a presidential inauguration.</p><p>To listen to series one of <em>Modern-ish Poets</em> and all our other Close Readings series, sign up here:</p><p>Directly in Apple Podcasts: <a href="https://apple.co/3pJoFPq" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://apple.co/3pJoFPq</a></p><p>In other podcast apps: <a href="https://lrb.me/mpsignuppod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/closereadings</a></p><p>Series one of <em>Modern-ish Poets</em> 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.</p><p>This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in August 2020.</p><p>Further reading on Frost in the <em>LRB</em>:</p><p>Leo Marx: <a href="https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod</a></p><p>Helen Vendler: <a href="https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod</a></p><p>Peter Howarth: <a href="https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod</a></p><p>Matthew Bevis: <a href="https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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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 difficult early life as an occasional poultry farmer and teacher, his arrival in England in 1912 amid the flowering of Georgian poetry, and his emergence as the first 20th-century professional poet, whose version of the American wilderness myth, full of mischief and foreboding, took him to packed concert halls and a presidential inauguration.
To listen to series one of Modern-ish Poets and all our other Close Readings series, sign up here:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPq
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadings
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 August 2020.
Further reading on Frost in the LRB:
Leo Marx: https://lrb.me/marxfrostpod
Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerfrostpod
Peter Howarth: https://lrb.me/howarthfrostpod
Matthew Bevis: https://lrb.me/bevisfrostpod
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.