Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry - Softcover

Caudwell, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846649145 ISBN 13: 9781846649141

Publisher: Obscure Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book contains Christopher Caudwell’s 1937 treatise, “Illusion and Reality”. It is a work of Marxist literary criticism that develops the idea that each individual era of British poetry stems from a novel economical paradigm in bourgeois society. Christopher St John Sprigg (1907–1937), more commonly known by his pseudonym 'Christopher Caudwell', was a British Marxist poet and thinker. In early life, he made his way to Marxism and set about rethinking everything in light of it, from poetry to philosophy to physics, and became a staunch member of the 'Communist Party of Great Britain'. Many vintage texts such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now, in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.

About this edition

• Publisher: Obscure Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1846649145
• ISBN 13: 9781846649141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 276