[Marxism] Poets versus novelists

[Ian Pace]

From: <g.maclennan at qut.edu.au>
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> My guess would be that the tendency for poets to be more reactionary than 
> novelists lies within the nature of the art. Poetry is closer to music 
> than any of the other artsin that to an extent neither engage the world 
> directly.
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There is another line of argument (which comes especially from Adorno) which 
would say that music is less likely to be reactionary for precisely that 
reason, as thus it least lends itself to subsumation towards social 
function.

Solidarity,
Ian