Poetry and Politics 1900 1960

by Cecil Maurice Bowra

Book Overview

Politics are not alien to poetry and in his Wiles Lectures Sir Maurice Bowra covered the main lines of European poetry during the first sixty years of the twentieth century in so far as it directly related to politics. From an exceptionally wide reading of the poetry of Western Europe, Greece, Russia and China, Sir Maurice gained unrivalled equipment for illuminating the three poetical forms with a political influence: the prophetic; the intimate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107402727
• ISBN13: 9781107402720
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"