TY - BOOK ID - 827609 TI - Saving civilization: Yeats, Eliot, and Auden between the Wars PY - 1984 SN - 0521263182 052126930X 9780521263184 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Auden, Wystan Hugh KW - Yeats, William B. KW - Eliot, T.S. KW - Literature and society KW - English poetry KW - Political poetry, English KW - History KW - History and criticism KW - Auden, W. H. KW - Yeats, W. B. KW - Eliot, T. S. KW - Political and social views KW - Great Britain KW - Social life and customs KW - History and criticism. KW - Political and social views. KW - Auden, W.H. KW - Yeats, William Butler KW - Literature and society - Great Britain - History KW - English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism KW - Political poetry, English - History and criticism KW - Auden, W. H. - Political and social views KW - Yeats, W. B. - Political and social views KW - Eliot, T. S. - Political and social views KW - Great Britain - Social life and customs - 1918-1945 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:827609 AB - 'Saving civilization' was the grandiloquent cry of the 1920s and 1930s, This is a study of the various answers these three great modern British poets - Yeats, Eliot, and Auden - gave to the question of how a 'mere writer' could affect the world of his audience. The author concentrates on the years between the wars, a time when the pressure to save civilization was felt by poets and political leaders alike. The book avoids political labels such as 'reactionary' or 'leftist'. Rather, it analyses the conflict the three felt between a civic urge to become engage; and an artistic need to remain disengaged. Dr McDiarmid traces the story of the different ideals the poets formulated in response to the fragmentation and anxiety of the modern world. Yeats, Eliot and Auden experienced a simultaneous disillusionment over political goals and a triumphant rededication to artistic ones. Their realistic adjustments to the limiting conditions of the twentieth century are sensitively described in a work that has immediate interest and permanent value. ER -