Making Something Happen: American Political Poetry between the World Wars

by Michael Thurston

Book Overview

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 generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. He offers an engaging new look...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807849790
• ISBN13: 9780807849798
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.2"