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 johnlyon in the NewRepublic, 8 March 1939, but was in the second published version in theLondon Mercuryin April of the same ...

war, politics, and disappearing poetry  This is nonsense, albeit memorable nonsense. Yet to start adducing specific con- trar ...

 johnlyon from later versions of the third section of this shape-shifting poem, of three stanzas whichculminate in the politi ...

war, politics, and disappearing poetry  it altogether more difficult to refute: ‘Nothing I wrote against Hitler prevented one ...

 johnlyon The political and ethical controversies surrounding Auden’s relation to the conflictsoftheThirtiesandtotheSecondWor ...

war, politics, and disappearing poetry  Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. Mysubject is War, and the pity of War. The ...

 johnlyon Of poets that are always gay, Foreverybody knows or else should know That if nothing drastic is done Aeroplane and ...

war, politics, and disappearing poetry  Thinking of characters rather than actors, we have to recognize that again andagain i ...

 johnlyon We have conceded that actors, unlike dramatic characters, do not ‘break up theirlines to weep’. But even here, Shak ...

war, politics, and disappearing poetry  ‘artificial’ tend to blur into each other in discussing this poem, and what seems a c ...

 johnlyon thought it a gap, a limitation in your mind that you cannot imagine a man taking a real interestin public affairs. ...

war, politics, and disappearing poetry  Either way, I am Throughwith history... Again, as we have seen with Yeats above, ther ...

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 dawn bellamy aware of the dual burdens of public expectation and personal anxiety, he answers the‘Where are the War Poets?’ ...

‘others have come before you’  by the constant flow of blood from dying soldiers, the poppies fall, but are constantly replac ...

 dawn bellamy silence ever’; immune to the sins of humanity, the natural world lives on amid the surroundingdestruction. The ...

‘others have come before you’  tone of ‘Cervieres’` demonstrates Keyes’s need to find some measure of justification for the W ...