Making something happen
World war, 1939-1945, causes
American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century
World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746
Politics and literature
Causes
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
American
World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
War
American poetry
Influence
World War, 1914-1918
Poetry
World War, 1939-1945
General
History and criticism
History
Poetry makes nothing happen, wrote W.H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a gener…
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