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'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.

Auden, Wystan Hugh --- Yeats, William B. --- Eliot, T.S. --- Literature and society --- English poetry --- Political poetry, English --- History --- History and criticism --- Auden, W. H. --- Yeats, W. B. --- Eliot, T. S. --- Political and social views --- Great Britain --- Social life and customs --- History and criticism. --- Political and social views. --- Auden, W.H. --- Yeats, William Butler --- Literature and society - Great Britain - History --- English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism --- Political poetry, English - History and criticism --- Auden, W. H. - Political and social views --- Yeats, W. B. - Political and social views --- Eliot, T. S. - Political and social views --- Great Britain - Social life and customs - 1918-1945

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English poetry --- Historical poetry, English --- Political poetry, English --- Anglo-Norman poetry --- Middle English, 1100-1500 --- History and criticism --- Edward --- In literature --- Great Britain --- History --- -English poetry --- -Historical poetry, English --- -Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- -Political poetry, English --- -Civilization, Medieval, in literature --- English political poetry --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- English historical poetry --- English literature --- Anglo-Norman literature --- Edward I, King of England --- -In literature --- -Anglo-Norman poetry --- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern --- In literature. --- English poetry - Middle English, 1100-1500 - History and criticism --- Historical poetry, English - History and criticism --- Political poetry, English - History and criticism --- Anglo-Norman poetry - History and criticism --- Edward - I, - King of England, - 1239-1307 - In literature --- Great Britain - History - Edward I, 1272-1307 --- Edward - I, - King of England, - 1239-1307