“... which is threatened – all this is signified by their language.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Seamus Heaney in their Close Readings series on the LRB ...”

“... of the translation lies in less conspicuous areas. Line lengths vary around the twelve syllable mark, and usually each line contains five main stresses; but every so often Heaney introduces a straight pentameter line. Often these deliberately reverberate with the energy of Milton or of Dryden. So the spirits of the Greeks retreat when they see Aeneas ...”

“... murder, sectarianism and occupation all feel a little more remote.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Seamus Heaney in their Close Readings series on the LRB ...”

“... Plate’ fills out an already substantial collection, his best so far.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Seamus Heaney in their Close Readings series on the LRB ...”

“... come at the car sidewaysAnd catch the heart off guard and blow it open.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Seamus Heaney in their Close Readings series on the LRB ...”

“... attention, but Heaney deserves some time and space to breathe free.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Seamus Heaney in their Close Readings series on the LRB ...”

“... uplift.’ Bucknell says that O’Hagan, along with other critics including Robert Potts and Mark Ford, saw this phenomenon as part of the ‘rebranding [of] poetry as a “lifestyle accessory” for the worried middle classes’ – a sort of ‘lavender bath oil’ and ‘state of the art therapy’. Several of these anthologies were edited by ...”

“... refinement, one might have the story told by somebody unaware of its larger plot, which is what Ford Madox Ford arranged. Ford was a Catholic of sorts, but it may be that it takes writers of more profound or more extreme religious conviction to express the relation of the human and the ...”

“... all hope,’ he says, ‘you can always find it again.’ And you sense that both he and Richard Ford would shake their heads if you were to read the novel as the dramatic monologue of a character whose optimism is merely an inversion of Richard Yates-style pessimism or a quality he’s been given to emphasise the pathos of his son’s death and his ...”

“... planet of which they were part.Prospero was something in insurance.  Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Wallace Stevens on the LRB ...”

“... liberated from the metal halo, tending to a collection of cacti.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Adrienne Rich on the LRB ...”

“... having dozed all winter in a deep, rich bed, the trench I sank one evening by the potting shed. I mark the best bloom, take it at the neck. On the Trail of the Old Ways Start from a hearth, which is the true heart of a house. Face south. Walk forward to the nearest mound. Go east alone through castle, crossroads, smithy, hallowed ground, pass on the right a ...”

“... There is a nasty, perhaps Freudian moment in Ford Madox Ford’s novel Some Do Not, in which, in the middle of a conversation, something occurs to the hero Tietjens: ‘Suddenly he thought that he didn’t know for certain that he was the father of his child, and he groaned.’ Tietjens, Ford continues, ‘proved his reputation for sanity’ by carrying on the conversation he was ostensibly having without reference to his daunting thought ...”

“... Kinsella to Ní Dhomhnaill – get the critical attention they deserve.Listen to Seamus Perry and Mark Ford discuss Seamus Heaney in their Close Readings series on the LRB ...”

“... We Have that They Don’t: Anglo-American Poetic Relations since the War’, organised by Mark Ford and Steve Clark under the aegis of the University of London. Few 20th-century events, even in literary history alone, were at once important and relatively harmless. One was the rise and fall of Anglo-American literature. I use the term, in what ...”