Poetry for Historians: Or, W. H. Auden and History

by Carolyn Steedman

Book Overview

This is a book about the conflict between history and poetry - and historians and poets - in Atlantic World society from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day. Blending historiography and theory, it proceeds by asking: what is the point of poetry as far as historians are concerned? The focus is on W. H. Auden's Cold War-era history poems, but the book also looks at other poets from the seventeenth century onwards, providing original...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526125234
• ISBN13: 9781526125231
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"