The Authority of Poets in a World without Authority

Social Research: An International Quarterly 74 (3):931-940 (2007)
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Abstract

H. Arendt asserts that "in the modern world authority has disappeared almost to the vanishing point." However, she attributes some kind of authority to the words of poets, in the case discussed here, to those of her friend W. H. Auden. The precious gift of the poets to write poems that have an "unconstraining" power , gives that authority to their voice

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