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War-obsessed poets struggle for unity amidst a tragic, creative decade.
Poetry of the Thirties
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304 pages
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28 September 2000
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Summary
Auden, Day Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.
For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic obsessions were transmuted into tragic reality. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, an astonishingly varied body…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184579 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184574 |
| Author: | Robin Skelton |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2000 |
| Weight: | 234g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Robin Skelton
Robin Skelton (12 October 1925 – 22 August 1997) was a British-born academic, writer, poet, and anthologist.
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