Poetry and uselessness: from coleridge to ashbery
Auteur :
Archambeau, Robert
Éditeur :
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN :
9781032175836
Date de publication :
30 sept. 2021
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
453 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." 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.