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 helen goethals War and the progress of poetry. The chronological framework of the War would notbe confined to the outbreak a ...

the muse that failed  poetry in general. George Orwell, in his attack on Auden’sSpain,pointed out the harm that poetry could ...

 helen goethals and those not stationed abroad threw themselves into the bohemian life of literary London,so well described i ...

themusethatfailed  World War, like those of the First, were focusing not on War but on the conduct of theWar, and not on the ...

 helen goethals it was the defensive nature of (British) patriotism that made it acceptable in a way that(German) nationalism ...

themusethatfailed  ‘Whatever you prefer’ was to be constructed on two levels, the one political, the othermystical. On the po ...

 helen goethals narrative of G. M. Trevelyan’s highly influentialSocialHistory of Englandwas organ- ized in chapters centred ...

the muse that failed  And keep your tears Forhim in after years. Better by far For Johnny-the-bright-star, To keep your head, ...

 helen goethals terror and grandeur of history endured. These attitudes meet in the idea of the sacred, that Englanditself wa ...

the muse that failed  the atomic bomb killed 118,661 people outright, and injured some 80,000 others; in Nagasakimore than 73 ...

 helen goethals mass deportations, imprisonment without trial,forgery, assassination, the bombing of civilians—which does not ...

themusethatfailed  In the final stages of the War, the feeling that war was somehow ‘unreal’ combined withthe poets’ sense of ...

 helen goethals stages of the War, Orwell had argued that a sense of community would provide the connectionbetween the indivi ...

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 peter mcdonald MacNeice’s decision to return to Britain in 1940, however, had nothing to do withthe plotting of his writing ...

louis macneice’s war  While MacNeice was keenly aware of what it might mean, as an Irishman, to ‘takethe King’s shilling’ in ...

 peter mcdonald international situation; but they are also haunted by something much more personal innature, which helps furt ...

louis macneice’s war  Were not there waiting in the dark. Thebulletins and the gladiators beset me Casting a blight on the Ir ...

 peter mcdonald re-entered the world of common or commercial sense. The Shannon itself is unlike the rivers ofthe mountains. ...

louis macneice’s war  certainly an important part of his decision, by the middle of the year, to leave again forBritain. In a ...