index
atomic bombs 508
Attridge,Steve 26
Atwood, Margaret 605
Auden, W. H. 347, 374, 433, 435, 599
and Christianity 285
and definition of poetry 564
and history 266–8, 284–5
and MacNeice 215, 216
and pastoral poetry 473, 475–6, 477
and politics and poetry
flight from politics 285–6
impotence 286–7
‘poetry makes nothing happen’ 279–86,
694
and Sino-Japanese War 266, 286
and Spanish Civil War 286, 572
disillusionment 249, 265
and United States 287, 382
‘A Walk After Dark’ 376
Another Time 249
‘Consider this and in our time’ 586
‘Homage to Clio’ 266
‘In Memory of W. B. Yeats’ 281–2, 283–4,
285–6, 287, 289
Journey to a War 266
‘Journey to Iceland’ 476
‘Last Will and Testament’ 477
‘Lay your sleeping head, my love’ 310
‘Letter to Lord Byron’ 473, 475, 477
‘LettertoR.H.S.Crossman’ 477
Letters from Iceland473, 475–6, 477
‘Makers of History’ 266
‘Mus ́ee des Beaux Arts’ 483, 486
New Year Letter 391
The Orators 132
‘Out on the lawn’ 252
‘Refugee Blues’ 595
‘September 1, 1939’ 434
Spain245, 247, 248, 251, 262
‘Spain 1937’ 249
ambivalence of 265
Communism 276
complexity of 265, 275
comradeship and community 276–7
criticism of 275
decision-making 272
epilogue 277
ethics 270, 275–6
feverish imagery 272–3
future 273–4, 275
history 266–7
History 268–9, 277
inadequacy 276
language of size 266
the life 269–71, 277
logical flaws 271, 272
murder and guilt 275–6, 286
nationhood 269
perspectives in 268–9
political positioning 274–5
religion 268
responsibility 278
revisions of 275
Spain 270–1
specificity of 265–6
structure of 271
struggle 267, 268, 275
writing about war 264
‘The History of Truth’ 266
‘The Public v the Late Mr William Butler
Yeats’ 284–5, 287
‘The Shield of Achilles’ 580, 586, 703
‘The Watershed’ 586Baden-Powell, Robert 44
Bairnsfather, Bruce 122
Baker, Kenneth 443–4
Balaban, John 572–3
‘In Celebration of Spring’ 573–4
Banville, John 581
Barbusse, Henri 95–6, 129
Barker, George:
Calamiterror 260
‘Elegy on Spain’ 260, 514
‘Sonnets from America’ 434
Barker, Juliet 132
Barker, Pat 132
Regeneration208–9, 223, 225
Barnes, William 681
Bartov, Omer 592
Battle of Britain 372, 510
Battle of the Somme, The(documentary
film) 172
Baudrillard, Jean 657
Bayley, John 125
beauty, and war 175–6, 188, 492–3
Beckett, Samuel 665–6
Not I 282
Bedford, Madeline Ida 107
Belloc, Hilaire 122
Benjamin, Walter 600, 617, 619
on Futurists 518
and visual technology 97
‘The Storyteller’ 73
Bergonzi, Bernard 136, 187
Bernstein, Charles 662
Bewley, Marius 543–4
Binyon, Laurence 141, 143, 176