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  1. Poetry and uselessness
    from Coleridge to Ashbery
    Author: Archambeau, Robert Thomas
    Published: 2020; © 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY

    "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... more

     

    "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; helped legitimize the entry of the middle class into political life; spawned ideas of symbolism that are still with us; formed a bulwark protecting literary culture from the commercial world; helped create the artistic subculture of bohemia; informed queer discourse and identity; and helped create both contemporary literary taste and the institutions that support it. Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson to Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery, we see how maintaining that poetry has no use in the world has been and remains a very powerful-and useful-idea"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429558221; 0429558228; 9780429263170; 0429263171; 9780429553752; 0429553757; 9780429562693; 0429562691
    Series: Among the Victorians and modernists
    Among the Victorians and modernists ; 20
    Subjects: English poetry / 19th century / History and criticism; Aestheticism (Literature); English poetry / 20th century / History and criticism; American poetry / 20th century / History and criticism; Poetry / Influence; Literature and society; Modernism (Literature)
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 254 pages)
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  2. Poetry and uselessness
    from Coleridge to Ashbery
    Author: Archambeau, Robert Thomas
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, New York, NY ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    "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... more

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    "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; helped legitimize the entry of the middle class into political life; spawned ideas of symbolism that are still with us; formed a bulwark protecting literary culture from the commercial world; helped create the artistic subculture of bohemia; informed queer discourse and identity; and helped create both contemporary literary taste and the institutions that support it. Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson to Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery, we see how maintaining that poetry has no use in the world has been and remains a very powerful-and useful-idea"--...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429558221; 0429558228; 9780429263170; 0429263171; 9780429553752; 0429553757; 9780429562693; 0429562691
    Series: Among the Victorians and modernists
    Subjects: English poetry; Aestheticism (Literature); English poetry; American poetry; Poetry; Literature and society; Modernism (Literature); LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource