The Resource Auden's apologies for poetry, Lucy McDiarmid, (electronic resource)
Auden's apologies for poetry, Lucy McDiarmid, (electronic resource)
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- 9781400860845
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- Auden's apologies for poetry
- Title
- Auden's apologies for poetry
- Statement of responsibility
- Lucy McDiarmid
- Language
- eng
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- McDiarmid, Lucy
- Dewey number
- 811/.52
- LC call number
- PR6001.U4
- LC item number
- Z757 1990eb
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- Auden, W. H.
- Auden, W. H.
- Poetry
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- Common wisdom has it that when Auden left England for New York in January 1939, he had already written his best poems. He left behind (most critics believe) all the idealisms of the 1930s and all serious concerns to become an unserious poet, a writer of ingenious, agreeable, minor lyrics. Lucy McDiarmid argues that such readers, spoiled by the simple intensities of apocalypse, distort and misjudge Auden's greatest work. She shows that once Auden was freed from the obligation to criticize and reform the society of his native country, he devoted his imaginative energies to commentary on art. And about art he was never complaisant: with greater passion than he had ever used to undermine "bourgeois" society, Auden undermined literature. Every major poem and every essay became a retractio, a statement of art's frivolity, vanity, and guilt. Auden's Apologies for Poetry, then, sets forth the unorthodox notion that the chief subject of later, "New Yorker" Auden is the insignificance of poetry. Commenting on all the major poems and essays from the 1930s through the 1960s, and analyzing manuscript revisions and unpublished works, it charts the changes in Auden's poetics in the light of his shift from an oral to a written model of poetry. In his earliest work Auden voices the tentative hope that poems can be like loving spoken words, transforming and redeeming, themselves carriers of value. After 1939 he takes for granted a written model. His later essays and poems deny art spiritual value, claiming that "love, or truth in any serious sense" is a "reticence," the unarticulated worth that exists--if at all--outside the words on the page. Later Auden creates a poetics of apology and self-deprecation, a radical undermining of poetry itself.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905
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- Auden's apologies for poetry, Lucy McDiarmid, (electronic resource)
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- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- OCM1bookssj0001374473
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- Isbn
- 9781400860845
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- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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- (WaSeSS)bookssj0001374473
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- Auden's apologies for poetry, Lucy McDiarmid, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control code
- OCM1bookssj0001374473
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Isbn
- 9781400860845
- Isbn Type
- (e-book)
- Note
- Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)bookssj0001374473
Subject
- Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Poetry
- Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Aesthetics
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