![]() ![]() Of course, there’s a long tradition of what might be called “environmental” writing. These days he might have been tempted to apply it to environmentalism. It’s a kind of litmus test for the health of a worldview – to measure the art it produces. Any political view, no matter how useful or right, that can’t persuade artists to make good art out of it, has real problems. ![]() Regardless of what we think of Auden, Orwell has a point. He goes on to say that “the high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist Literature, is WH Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling, and the even feebler poets who are associated with him” – trying to kill two perfectly good birds with one slightly childish stone. I n The Road to Wigan Pier, George Orwell complains that “artists of any consequence can never be persuaded into the Socialist fold … Nearly everything describable as Socialist literature is dull, tasteless, and bad.” He calls this fact “disastrous”. ![]()
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