'Saving civilization' was the grandiloquent cry of the 1920s and
1930s, This is a study of the various answers these three great
modern British poets - Yeats, Eliot and Auden - gave to the
question of how a 'mere writer' could affect the world of his
audience. The author concentrates on the years between the wars, a
time when the pressure to save civilization was felt by poets and
political leaders alike. The book avoids the typical political
labels associated with these poets, such as 'reactionary' or
'leftist'. Rather, it analyses the conflict the three felt between
a civic urge to become engage and an artistic need to remain
disengaged. Dr McDiarmid traces the story of the different ideals
the poets formulated in response to the fragmentation and anxiety
of the modern world. Yeats, Eliot and Auden experienced a
simultaneous disillusionment over political goals and a triumphant
rededication to artistic ones. Their realistic adjustments to the
limiting conditions of the twentieth century are sensitively
described in a work that has immediate interest and permanent
value.
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