These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

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poets associated with World War II and the Civil War periods respectively, whose poetry nevertheless retained a notable hopefulness Whitman’s “Chants Democratic,” written as the country is ...

World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?

The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming ...

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Homer wrote about the Trojan War; Alfred Lord Tennyson, the Crimean War; Walt Whitman, the Civil War; Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and ...

I am the author of two books of poetry ... poets associated with World War II and the Civil War periods respectively, whose poetry nevertheless retained a notable hopefulness Whitman’s ...

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After the invasion, my family moved to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and tried to find a better life. My dad listened to political ...