The Spanish Civil War & Literature: Orwell, Auden, Eliot and Hemingway

In this video, I look at how the Spanish Civil War shaped the literature of the modernist movement. George Orwell and Ernest Hemingway both visited Spain during the war, and T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden asked questions about a poet's duty in the modern world.

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Sources:

L. Mirella, Realigning Modernism: Eliot, Auden, and the Spanish Civil War Author(s), Modern Language Studies

David Robinson (2015) More than a Period Piece: Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls as a Reflection of the Spanish Civil War, English Academy Review, 32:2, 88-100, DOI: 10.1080/10131752.2015.1086160

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Music:

"Truth in the Stones" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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