From the new and interesting viewpoint of the milieu of the 1930s and the eras of English literary and political history which preceded and followed that decade, Elton Smith examines the special signifi cance of the works of C. Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, and W. H. Auden. In his view the 1930s were for the angry young men represented by these four poets a kind of bridge between the disillusionment following the French Revolution and the despair engendered by the Moscow-Berlin nonaggression pact at the end ...
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From the new and interesting viewpoint of the milieu of the 1930s and the eras of English literary and political history which preceded and followed that decade, Elton Smith examines the special signifi cance of the works of C. Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, Louis MacNeice, and W. H. Auden. In his view the 1930s were for the angry young men represented by these four poets a kind of bridge between the disillusionment following the French Revolution and the despair engendered by the Moscow-Berlin nonaggression pact at the end of the decade. What these four poets had in common, in addition to their poetic hopes for a new era, was a Socialist allegiance, two of them as party members, the other two intellectually or emotionally drawn to so cialism as the cure for the malaise from which England suffered. As Smith bril liantly shows, the poets' socialistic pre scriptions were ineffective because of their growing realization of the political expediency of the Communist Party, and their voices became muted.
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Good in Good jacket. I6-DJ is mylar protected. DJ has price clipped, label on the lower spine, some rubbing, inside flaps glued to the fixed endpapers, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise very good. Book has library stamping on the top and bottom page edges, loose endpapers, and title page, label and cardholder adhered on the back loose endpaper, some peeling/chipping on the back endpapers, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise very good. Preface by Harry T. Moore.
