Poetics of Utopia

Focusing on the work of two of the 20th-century''s most politically engaged poets - W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden - this book unpacks how they directly confront the concept of “utopia,” how they engage with utopia as a literary genre, and how their work conceives of poetry as a utopian artform capable of uniquely embodying our social aspirations.

Despite consistently projecting visions of more ideal ...