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Political Poems: Andrew Marvell's 'An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland'

Jan 31, 202435 min
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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’. Sign up to the Close Readings subscription to listen ad free and to all our series in full: Directly in Apple Podcasts In other podcast apps Read the poem here Further reading in the LRB: Blair Worden: Double Tongued Frank Kermode: Hard Labour David Norbrook: Political Verse Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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