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Poetry and Uselessness - From Coleridge to Ashbery (Paperback)
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Poetry and Uselessness - From Coleridge to Ashbery (Paperback)
Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists
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W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." That may
or may not be the case, but the idea that poetry makes nothing
happen has, itself, been extremely influential, and has made a
great deal happen in the world. This book examines several of the
main currents in literary history as that influential idea flows
through poetry and into the wider world. Since the invention of the
idea, it has influenced theories of education; helped legitimize
the entry of the middle class into political life; spawned ideas of
symbolism that are still with us; formed a bulwark protecting
literary culture from the commercial world; helped create the
artistic subculture of bohemia; informed queer discourse and
identity; and helped create both contemporary literary taste and
the institutions that support it. 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.
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