Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
<p>In the first episode of their new&nbsp;<em>Close Readings</em>&nbsp;series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by Frank Kermode as ‘braced against folly by the power and intelligence that make it possible to think it the greatest political poem in the language’.</p><p>Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College, London, and Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford.</p><p>Sign up to the Close Readings subscription to listen ad free and to all our series in full:</p><p>Directly in Apple Podcasts:&nbsp;<a href="https://lrb.me/ppapplesignup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/ppapplesignup</a></p><p>In other podcast apps:&nbsp;<a href="https://lrb.me/ppsignup" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/ppsignup</a></p><br><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44683/an-horatian-ode-upon-cromwells-return-from-ireland" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read the poem here</a></p><br><p>Further reading in the <em>LRB</em>:</p><p>Blair Worden: Double Tongued: <a href="https://lrb.me/wordenpp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/wordenpp</a></p><p>Frank Kermode: Hard Labour: <a href="https://lrb.me/kermodepp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/kermodepp</a></p><p>David Norbrook: Political Verse: <a href="https://lrb.me/norbrookpp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/norbrookpp</a></p><br><p>Get in touch: [email protected]</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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Show Notes
In the first episode of their new Close Readings series on political poetry, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford look at ‘An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland’ by Andrew Marvell, described by Frank Kermode as ‘braced against folly by the power and intelligence that make it possible to think it the greatest political poem in the language’.
Mark Ford is Professor of English at University College, London, and Seamus Perry is Professor of English Literature at Balliol College, Oxford.
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/ppapplesignup
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/ppsignup
Further reading in the LRB:
Blair Worden: Double Tongued: https://lrb.me/wordenpp
Frank Kermode: Hard Labour: https://lrb.me/kermodepp
David Norbrook: Political Verse: https://lrb.me/norbrookpp
Get in touch: [email protected]
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.