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'[This book] will be a must-read as much for literary critics of W. H. Auden as historians of the twentieth century, for eighteenth centuryists of any discipline, and for anyone who wants to think about what constitutes history writing, or, indeed, to think about the journey of the Left over the past few decades and where it might end up.' John Mee, Professor of Eighteenth-century Studies, University of York 'Witty, acute, eloquent, ruthlessly confessional and riveting, Poetry for historians refuses to leave poetry to poets. It also proves Steedman to be the poet of history par excellence.' Roger Cooter, Emeritus Professor of History, UCL 'It's very hard to think of other historians who move so creatively in quite the same way across various kinds of borders, where the latter are not so much the boundaries between academic disciplines as the differences between familiar and more imaginative forms of knowledge and thought. With an exceptional eye for the unexpected insights and meanings, Carolyn Steedman roams brilliantly among a wide variety of genres and practices of writing and public performance, while pushing carefully on how we can understand them.' Geoff Eley, Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, University of Michigan -- .

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Carolyn Steedman is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick

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