Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

Aug 26, 202679:40Society & Culture

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 v...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from The LRB Podcast.

On Politics: Germany's Far-Right Future?

Sep 10, 2026 - 64:05

On Sunday, the far-right party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won the state election in Saxony-Anhalt...

The Romantic History of the Bayeux Tapestry

Sep 6, 2026 - 59:54

The story of why, and how, an arrow ended up in Harold's eye in the Bayeux Tapestry is tied to the politi...

Roman Scandinavia

Sep 3, 2026 - 34:50

In the late 160s AD, the Roman armies of Marcus Aurelius recruited large numbers of troops from the islan...

Travel with Close Readings: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino

Aug 30, 2026 - 97:21

Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of...

Travel with Close Readings: ‘The Portrait of a Lady’ by Henry James

Aug 23, 2026 - 71:25

In The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James borrows from Eliot, Austen, folktales and potboilers, but ‘the thi...

Adam Shatz: Visions of America

Aug 19, 2026 - 55:47

‘The very word “America” remains a new, almost completely undefined and extremely controversial proper no...

Travel with Close Readings: Byron’s ‘Don Juan’

Aug 16, 2026 - 113:53

Few poets have had the courage (or inclination) to rhyme ‘Plato’ with ‘potato’, ‘intellectual’ with ‘hen-...

Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient

Aug 12, 2026 - 62:26

Not for the first time, theorists of politics are turning to the unconscious and its strange workings – r...