Emily Bloom chronicles the emergence of the British Broadcasting Corporation as a significant promotional platform and aesthetic influence for Irish modernism from the 1930s to the 1960s. She situates the works of W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Louis MacNeice, and Samuel Beckett in the context of the media environments that shaped their works.

• Introduction: Air-Borne Bards 1


• 1: W. B. Yeats's Radiogenic Poetry


• 2: Louis MacNeice in the Echo Chamber


• 3: Elizabeth Bowen's Spectral Radio


• 4: Samuel Beckett's Sound Archives


• Conclusion: Legacies of Radiogenic Aesthetics

Emily C. Bloom is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University specializing in modern British and Irish literature. She received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has served as Assistant Professor at Georgia State University and Visiting Professor at the United States Air Force Academy.