What is the point of poetry?-for historians? The answer lies in a new history of History-of history-writing, historical thinking and `history-in-society', all seen through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history-poems, and from the perspective of countless educations in poetry and history from the eighteenth-century to the present day. -- .

What is the point of poetry?-for historians? The answer lies in a new history of History-of history-writing, historical thinking and `history-in-society', all seen through the prism of W. H. Auden's Cold War history-poems, and from the perspective of countless educations in poetry and history from the eighteenth-century to the present day. -- .