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
Poetry for Historians: Or, W.H. Auden and History
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- Publisher
- ManchesterUP
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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