'Remember Belgium' - Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War

'Remember Belgium' - Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War

Location:	District of Columbia, United States
Lecture Date:	2008-07-17 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2008-07-08
Announcement ID:	163091

Kluge Fellow, Geert Buelens, presents Remember Belgium - Poetry as Propaganda during the First World War, 17 July at 12:00 in Whittall Pavilion, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress.

This talk will address the use of poetry as propaganda, using First World War poems about Belgium by poets such as e.e. cummings, Witter Bynner, Ford Madox Ford and prominent Russian, Italian and Scandinavian poets.

Robert Saladini

Robert Saladini
Office of Scholarly Programs
Library of Congress
Email: lckluge@loc.gov
Visit the website at http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge//news/news2008.html#buelens

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