Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry Between the World Wars by Michael Thurston

Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry Between the World Wars

Cultural Studies of the United States

Michael Thurston

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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 Thur...

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