Close Reading: The Hopkins Haecceity

In the first episode in a new series of Close Readings, our ‘revolutionary . . . ★★★★★’ (The Times) podcast that considers the life and work of Anglophone poets from the (increasingly) long 20th century, through pieces written about them in the LRB archive, Seamus Perry and Mark Ford take on Gerard Manley Hopkins: Victorian literature’s only anti-modern proto-modernist queer-ecologist Jesuit priest. LRB pieces mentioned in this episode: Helen Vendler: I have not lived up to it (2014) Patricia Beer: What he meant by happiness (1992) John Bayley: Pork Chops (1991) A full transcript of this episode is available here: https://lrb.me/closereadinghopkins For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy