1917-1955
Edwin Morgan talks about the recent book by Jack Lindsay
Since the Revolution, Soviet verse has paralleled almost every modern movement with which we are familiar in the West, although its more recent history has been chiefly influenced by the controversial doctrine of Socialist Realism. Mr. Morgan attempts to evaluate the merits, as well as the more frequently stressed defects, of this doctrine, which he claims helped to create an excellent war poetry in the 1940s.