Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet скачать в хорошем качестве

Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet

Many thinkers have characterised modernity by its investment in the idea of pluralism, ‘of things being various’, in Louis MacNeice’s phrase. How do the virtues of plurality and difference fit with the more traditional virtues of poetic unity and imaginative order? Seamus Perry considers the ways in which modern poets have responded to the demands of pluralism, and whether Auden was right in thinking that a poem that exemplified the pluralist values of liberal democracy would be ‘formless, windy, banal and utterly boring’. Seamus Perry delivered this Winter Lecture at Conway Hall on 30 January 2026. Seamus Perry is a fellow of Balliol College and professor of English at the University of Oxford. He has published numerous books on poetry and criticism, including most recently editions of Matthew Arnold and William Empson. He is currently working on an intellectual biography of W.H. Auden, as well as finishing a collection of critical essays about modern poetry. With Christopher Ricks and Freya Johnston, he is editor of the journal Essays in Criticism. He regularly contributes to the London Review of Books and, with Mark Ford, has presented several series for the LRB’s Close Readings podcast, including the new series on Narrative Poetry. More from Seamus Perry in the LRB archive: https://lrb.co.uk/contributors/seamus... More reading and listening from Seamus Perry on the episode page: https://lrb.me/seamusperrywl Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://lrb.me/youtube ABOUT THE LRB The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of the world’s best writers to explore a wide variety of subjects in exhilarating detail – from culture and politics to science and technology via history and philosophy. In the age of the long read, the LRB remains the pre-eminent exponent of the intellectual essay, admired around the world for its fearlessness, its range and its elegance. As well as essays and book reviews each issue also contains poems, an exhibition review, ‘short cuts’, letters and a diary, and is available in print, online, and offline via our app. Subscribers enjoy unlimited access to almost 15,000 articles in our digital archive. Our website features a regular blog and a channel of audio and video content, including podcasts, author interviews and highlights from the events programme at the London Review Bookshop.