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Political poetry


  • Poetry that features the political milieu.
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    • Political poetry
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    • found: Work cat.: Dahana, R. Manusia istana : sekumpulan puisi politik, 2015(compilation of political poetry in Indonesian)
    • found: Ḳol ḳore be-ʻoz : poliṭiḳah ṿe-shirah be-Yiśraʼel = A voice calls with vigor : politics and poetry in Israel, ©2012(chiefly history and criticism of Hebrew and Israeli political poetry, but also includes substantial examples of the poetry)
    • found: Will work for peace : new political poems, ©1999.
    • found: State of the union : 50 political poems, ©2008.
    • found: Trillin, C. Dogfight : the 2012 presidential campaign in verse, 2012.
    • found: The Faber book of political verse, 1986.
    • found: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, ©2012:Politics and Poetry (the quintessentially lyrical Anna Akhmatova, attacked by Soviet critics for her suspiciously individualist love lyrics, directed her greatest political poem, Requiem (written 1935-40, pub. 1963), against Stalin's terror; the hist. of poetry, as Paulin demonstrates, abounds in successful political poems: med. peasant's songs, the Divine Comedy, Andrew Marvell's Horatian ode, Milton's political sonnets, Egan O'Rahilly's Gaelic laments, John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel, William Blake's "London," André Chénier's "Iambes VIII," William Wordsworth's Prelude, W. B. Yeats's "Easter, 1916," Marina Tsvetaeva's "André Chénier," Akhmatova's "Voronezh," Pablo Neruda's "The United Fruit Co.," Zbigniew Herbert's "Elegy of Fortinbras," Seamus Heaney's "Punishment"; political poems concern situations that might be otherwise; the boundaries dividing overtly political from "apolitical," and even "antipolitical," poetry are fluid; McKeon argues that ideological comprehensiveness is the apt criterion for political poetry: political poets succeed by comprehending a wide range of the demands and conflicts of their time, not by rising above their historical moment)
    • found: LCSH, Sept. 12, 2016(Political poetry. BT Poetry)
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    • Poetry that features the political milieu.
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    • 2016-09-12: new
    • 2017-01-09: revised
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