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Listen "Tennyson's 'Maud'"
Episode Synopsis
Mark Ford and Seamus Perry start their series, The Long and Short, with Tennyson’s ‘Maud’, a weird and disturbing poem about obsession that Tennyson himself was obsessed by. He would recite it in full at the drop of a hat, sometimes more than once, to friends and foes alike – even though it received notoriously bad reviews when it was published. This episode considers why the poem meant so much to him, and what it tells us about the Victorian age.
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on Tennyson in the LRB:
Seamus Perry:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n02/seamus-perry/are-we-there-yet
Danny Karlin:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n20/danny-karlin/tennyson-s-text
Non-subscribers will only hear an extract from this episode. To listen in full, and all our other Close Readings series, sign up:
Directly in Apple Podcasts: https://lrb.me/tlasapple
In other podcast apps: https://lrb.me/tlassignuppod
on Tennyson in the LRB:
Seamus Perry:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v33/n02/seamus-perry/are-we-there-yet
Danny Karlin:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n20/danny-karlin/tennyson-s-text
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