Saving Civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden Between the Wars

by Lucy McDiarmid

Book Overview

'Saving civilization' was the grandiloquent cry of the 1920s and 1930s, This is a study of the various answers these three great modern British poets - Yeats, Eliot and Auden - gave to the question of how a 'mere writer' could affect the world of his audience. The author concentrates on the years between the wars, a time when the pressure to save civilization was felt by poets and political leaders alike. The book avoids the typical political labels...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052126930X
• ISBN13: 9780521269308
• Release Date: November 1984
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.1" x 7.8"