Social poetry

Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary. The term seems to have first appeared as a translation from the original Spanish Poesia Socíal, used to describe the post-Spanish-civil-war poetry movement of the 1950s and 60s[1] (including poets such as Blas de Otero). Later, José Eduardo Limón, for example, has used it to describe Mexican-American Chicano poetry in Texas during the same period.[2] Elsewhere, others have used the term to describe English-language poets such as W.H. Auden[3] and George Bernard Shaw.[4] Boston University has recently offered courses in “the social poetry of Central America.”[5]

  1. ^ Daydí-Tolson, Santiago (1983). The Post-Civil War Spanish Social Poets. Boston: Twayne Publishers. ISBN 0805765336.
  2. ^ Limón, José Eduardo (1992). Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems: History and Influence in Mexican-American Social Poetry. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520076338.
  3. ^ Manteiga, Robert C. (Summer 1989). "Politics and Poetics: England's Thirties Poets and the Spanish Civil War". Modern Language Studies. 19 (3): 3–14. doi:10.2307/3195099. JSTOR 3195099?.
  4. ^ "George Bernard Shaw - Social Poet". Vegetarian / Vegan Society of Queensland. Retrieved 17 May 2012.
  5. ^ "Romance Studies; Spanish". Boston University. Retrieved 17 May 2012.