Poetry and Uselessness: From Coleridge to Ashbery

by Robert Archambeau

Book Overview

W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." That may or may not be the case, but the idea that poetry makes nothing happen has, itself, been extremely influential, and has made a great deal happen in the world.　 This book examines several of the main currents in literary history as that influential idea flows through poetry and into the wider world. Since the invention of the idea, it has influenced theories of education;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032175834
• ISBN13: 9781032175836
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"