Political Poems: 'The Masque of Anarchy' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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Narrative Poems: ‘Paradise Lost’ (Book 9) by John Milton

When Milton came to describe Eve’s tasting of the forbidden fruit, he knew he couldn’t rely on suspense to grip the reader. Instead, he used multiple genres and perspectives to interrogate the moral and emotional significance of ‘man’s first disobedience’, self-consciously drawin ...  عرض المزيد

Nature in Crisis: ‘Blue Machine’ by Helen Czerski

In Blue Machine (2024), Helen Czerski refigures the ocean as an enormous planetary engine, converting light and heat into motion. Her book invites us to see the ocean not as an ‘absence’ but an intricate series of operations that makes life as we know it possible. In this episode ...  عرض المزيد

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

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 ...  عرض المزيد

Civil Disobedience with Noëlle McAfee
Overthink

Do political subjects have a default obligation to obey the law? In episode 105 of Overthink, Ellie and David discuss civil disobedience in the present context of university activism for divestment from genocide in Gaza. They chart the genealogy of the concept of disobedience ...

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Stephanie Barczewski, "How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023)
New Books in Architecture

How the Country House Became English (Reaktion, 2023) by Dr. Stephanie Barczewski is an exploration of the evolution of the quintessentially English country house. Country houses have come to be regarded as quintessentially English, not only in terms of their architectural style ...  عرض المزيد

Violence Upon the Roads
The TLS Podcast

This week, Thea Lenarduzzi and Lucy Dallas are joined by Patricia Craig, a writer and critic from Northern Ireland, who relates a sad and murky case of accidental killings, which took place during the Irish Civil War of the early 1920s; the TLS’s politics editor Toby Lichtig revi ...  عرض المزيد