# Event Details - **Event Name**: LRB Winter Lectures | Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: The London Review of Books Winter Lectures for 2026About this EventMany 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 virtues of poetic unity and imaginative order? This lecture will consider the ways in which modern poets have responded to the demands of pluralism, and whether Auden was right in thinking that a poem that exemplified the pluralist values of liberal democracy would be ‘formless, windy, banal and utterly boring’.Seamus Perry is a fellow of Balliol College and professor of English at the University of Oxford. He has published numerous books on poetry and criticism, including most recently editions of Matthew Arnold and William Empson. He is currently working on an intellectual biography of W.H. Auden, as well as finishing a collection of critical essays about modern poetry. With Christopher Ricks and Freya Johnston, he is editor of the journal Essays in Criticism. He regularly contributes to the London Review of Books and, with Mark Ford, has presented several series for the LRB’s Close Readings podcast (a new series on narrative poetry will begin in January).This year’s other Winter Lectures:Now in their fifteenth year, the annual ‘London Review of Books’ Winter Lectures have been the occasion for many of the paper’s most widely discussed interventions of recent years, from Judith Butler on who owns Kafka to Hilary Mantel on royal bodies, Andrew O’Hagan on Julian Assange to Mary Beard on women in power, Meehan Crist on childbearing in the age of climate crisis to Pankaj Mishra on the Shoah after Gaza. A reading list of past lectures can be found on the LRB website . - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/london/lrb-winter-lectures-|-seamus-perry-pluralism-and-the-modern-poet/100001968126577574 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 15, max: 15, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: London - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Conway Hall - **lat**: 51.51987920000001 - **long**: -0.1182014 - **full address**: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: LRB Winter Lectures | Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/78727f25acbd86321a191faa36c4d6f70ecfd92e08738a10f8d810aae6e40875-rimg-w1200-h600-dc5db487-gmir.jpg?v=1765880309 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is LRB Winter Lectures | Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet being held? - **A:** LRB Winter Lectures | Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet takes place on Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Fri, 30 Jan, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, United Kingdom. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for LRB Winter Lectures | Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet? - **A:** Tickets for LRB Winter Lectures | Seamus Perry: Pluralism and the Modern Poet are priced at GBP 15 per person. 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