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03219aam a2200409 i 4500 001 6C4AAA8C74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 191230t20202020nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019055774 020 $a 0367207362 020 $a 9780367207366 035 $a (OCoLC)1135091571 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR468 A33 A73 2020 100 1 $a Archambeau, Robert Thomas, $d 1968- $e author. 245 10 $a Poetry and uselessness : $b from Coleridge to Ashbery / $c Robert Archambeau. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Routledge, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 254 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Among the Victorians and modernists ; $v 20 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Chapter One. Aesthetic Autonomy and the Bourgeoisie: A Love Story -- Chapter Two. The Shadow of the Dome of Pleasure: Coleridge and Aesthetic Autonomy -- Chapter Three. Tennyson as Aesthete and Public Moralist -- Chapter Four. From the Cultured Minority to Minority Culture:The Rise of the Aesthetes -- Chapter Five. Awakened From the Common Dream: Yeats and Aesthetic Autonomy -- Chapter Six. Being Geniuses Together: Gertrude Stein in Paris -- Chapter Seven. T.S. Eliot and the Burial of an American Elite -- Chapter Eight. W.H. Auden: Camp and Crisis -- Chapter Nine. Ashbery Adrift. 520 $a "W.H. Auden famously claimed "poetry makes nothing happen." That may or may not be the case, but the idea that poetry makes nothing happen has, itself, been extremely influential, and has made a great deal happen in the world. This book examines several of the main currents in literary history as that influential idea flows through poetry and into the wider world. Since the invention of the idea, it has influenced theories of education; helped legitimize the entry of the middle class into political life; spawned ideas of symbolism that are still with us; formed a bulwark protecting literary culture from the commercial world; helped create the artistic subculture of bohemia; informed queer discourse and identity; and helped create both contemporary literary taste and the institutions that support it. Through chapters on figures from Coleridge and Tennyson to Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery, we see how maintaining that poetry has no use in the world has been and remains a very powerful-and useful-idea"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a English poetry $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Aestheticism (Literature) 650 0 $a English poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Poetry $x Influence. 650 0 $a Literature and society. 650 0 $a Modernism (Literature) 776 08 $i Online version: $a Archambeau, Robert, $t Poetry and uselessness $d New York : Routledge, 2020. $z 9780429263170 $w (DLC) 2019055775 830 0 $a Among the Victorians and modernists; $v 20. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210903020314.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6C4AAA8C74A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search