The Poetics of Utopia: Shadows of Futurity in Yeats and Auden

by Stewart Cole

Focusing on the work of two of the 20th-century's most politically engaged poets - W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden - this book unpacks how they directly confront the concept of "utopia," how they engage with utopia as a literary genre, and how their work conceives of poetry as a utopian artform capable of uniquely embodying our social aspirations.

Despite consistently projecting visions of more ideal futures through both its subject matter and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350293857
• ISBN13: 9781350293854
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"