Modern-ish Poets Series 2: W. B. Yeats

<p>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 culture, to his shift towards the Modernist experiment, and preoccupation with the ‘murderousness of the world’.</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>Read more in the LRB:</p><p>Seamus Deane: <a href="https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/deaneyeatspod</a></p><p>Michael Wood: <a href="https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/woodyeatspod</a></p><p>Colm Tóibín: <a href="https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/toibinyeatspod</a></p><p>This episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in December 2021.</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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