Social poetry is poetry that performs a social function or carries a level of social commentary. The term appears to have first arisen as a translation of the Spanish poesia social, describing the post-Spanish-Civil-War poetry movement of the 1950s and 1960s, and has since been applied by different scholars to other bodies of work, including Mexican-American Chicano poetry in Texas of the same period and English-language poets such as W. H. Auden and George Bernard Shaw.
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How has the idea of social poetry been taken up more recently?
John Stubley has used the term as part of the Centre for Social Poetry. He builds on Owen Barfield's idea of poetic effect, a felt change of consciousness, and explores how that effect arises between people and in the organisation of social life. His aim is to open up the way to individual and social transformation.
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1. Wikipedia: Social poetry
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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 (including poets such as Blas de Otero).
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Social poetry is poetry which performs a social function or contains a level of social commentary.
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