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- catalog abstract "Poetry makes nothing happen, wrote W.H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. He offers an engaging new look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Muriel Rukeyser. Thurston combines close textual reading of the poems with research into their historical context to reveal how these four poets deployed the resources of tradition and experimentation to contest and redefine political common sense. In the process, he demonstrates that the aesthetic censure under which much partisan writing has labored needs dramatic revision. Although each of these poets worked with different forms and toward different ends, Thurston shows that their strategies succeed as poetry. He argues that partisan poetry demands reflection not only on how we evaluate poems but also on what we value in poems and, therefore, which poems we elevate.".
- catalog alternative "American political poetry between the world wars".
- catalog contributor b12290764.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-263) and index.".
- catalog description "Poetry makes nothing happen, wrote W.H. Auden in 1939, expressing a belief that came to dominate American literary institutions in the late 1940s--the idea that good poetry cannot, and should not, be politically engaged. By contrast, Michael Thurston here looks back to the 1920s and 1930s to a generation of poets who wrote with the precise hope and the deep conviction that they would move their audiences to action. He offers an engaging new look at the political poetry of Edwin Rolfe, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound, and Muriel Rukeyser. Thurston combines close textual reading of the poems with research into their historical context to reveal how these four poets deployed the resources of tradition and experimentation to contest and redefine political common sense. In the process, he demonstrates that the aesthetic censure under which much partisan writing has labored needs dramatic revision. Although each of these poets worked with different forms and toward different ends, Thurston shows that their strategies succeed as poetry. He argues that partisan poetry demands reflection not only on how we evaluate poems but also on what we value in poems and, therefore, which poems we elevate.".
- catalog description "Tradition and the political poet: Edwin Rolfe -- All together, black and white: Langston Hughes -- Getting the goofs to listen: Ezra Pound -- Extending the document: Muriel Rukeyser.".
- catalog extent "viii, 272 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Making something happen.".
- catalog identifier "0807826545 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0807849790 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Making something happen.".
- catalog isPartOf "Cultural studies of the United States".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,".
- catalog relation "Making something happen.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "811/.5209358 21".
- catalog subject "American poetry 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "PS310.P6 T48 2001".
- catalog subject "Political poetry, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Politics and literature United States History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Influence.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1939-1945 Causes.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Tradition and the political poet: Edwin Rolfe -- All together, black and white: Langston Hughes -- Getting the goofs to listen: Ezra Pound -- Extending the document: Muriel Rukeyser.".
- catalog title "American political poetry between the world wars".
- catalog title "Making something happen : American political poetry between the world wars / Michael Thurston.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".