The Magnetic Mountain

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The Magnetic Mountain is a 1933 modernist poetry collection by Cecil Day-Lewis that reflects his early Marxist sympathies and experiments with politically engaged verse.

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instanceOf book
poetry collection
associatedWith 1930s British poetry
British Marxist literary tradition
author Cecil Day-Lewis NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
creator Cecil Day-Lewis NERFINISHED
followedBy Overtures to Death and Other Poems NERFINISHED
genre modernist poetry
political poetry
hasInfluenceOn later readings of Cecil Day-Lewis as a political poet
hasPart lyric poems
political poems
hasReception noted by critics as a key document of Day-Lewis's Marxist phase
hasSubject capitalism and its critique
workers and proletariat
hasTheme Marxism NERFINISHED
class struggle
economic inequality
political commitment
revolutionary politics
social justice
influencedBy Marxist theory
left-wing politics in 1930s Britain
language English
literaryForm verse
literaryMovement modernism
literaryTechnique imagery
irony
symbolism
medium print
notableFor experiments with politically engaged verse
expression of early Marxist commitment of Cecil Day-Lewis
partOf Cecil Day-Lewis's early poetic career
period interwar literature
publicationYear 1933
publisher Victor Gollancz Ltd NERFINISHED
reflects Cecil Day-Lewis's early Marxist sympathies
style experimental
politically engaged
timePeriodDescribed early 20th century

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Cecil Day-Lewis notableWork The Magnetic Mountain