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Poetry for Historians : Or, W. H. Auden and History.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526125224
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Poetry for HistoriansDDC classification:
  • 809.1
LOC classification:
  • PR6001.U4 .S744 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: History -- Servant poets: An Ode on a Dishclout -- W. H. Auden and the servants -- The uses of Clio -- An education -- W. H. Auden and me -- Caesura: a worker reads history and ahistorian writes poetry -- Part II: Historiography -- Makers of History -- Homage to Clio -- The Ridiculous Historian's Hopes -- Conclusion -- Permissions -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: What is the point of poetry for historians? The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day.
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Front matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: History -- Servant poets: An Ode on a Dishclout -- W. H. Auden and the servants -- The uses of Clio -- An education -- W. H. Auden and me -- Caesura: a worker reads history and ahistorian writes poetry -- Part II: Historiography -- Makers of History -- Homage to Clio -- The Ridiculous Historian's Hopes -- Conclusion -- Permissions -- Bibliography -- Index.

What is the point of poetry for historians? The answer lies in this new 'history of history', which looks at the question through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history poems and of poetry and history education from the eighteenth century to the present day.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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