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Modern Classics Poetry of the Thirties (Penguin Modern Classics) by Robin E Skelton; Robin Skelton is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic obsessions were transmuted into tragic reality. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, an astonishingly varied body of poetry emerged. Robin Skelton has arranged the poetry to make an illuminating critical essay of the period, and in his introduction he brilliantly probes the moods and mores of an intensely troubled and creative decade.

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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Robin E Skelton; Robin Skelton
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
2000
Language
EN
ISBN
9780141184579
Category
work of literary fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities
Rating
3.64 / 5 (135 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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