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Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'
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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’.
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Read the poem here
Further reading in the LRB:
David Norbrook: Political Verse
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363 episodes
Manage episode 398515248 series 1347853
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’.
Sign up to the Close Readings subscription to listen ad free and to all our series in full:
Read the poem here
Further reading in the LRB:
David Norbrook: Political Verse
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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