Modern-ish Poets Series 2: Gerard Manley Hopkins

In the first episode of their second series of Modern-ish Poets, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest.To listen to series one of Modern-ish Poets and to this series ad free, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up here:Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/closereadingsSeries 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.Further reading on Hopkins in the LRB:Helen Vendler: https://lrb.me/vendlerhopkinspodPatricia Beer: https://lrb.me/beerhopkinspodJohn Bayley: https://lrb.me/bayleyhopkinspodThis episode was first published on the LRB Podcast in March 2020. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.