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Auden and the muse of history /

"Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of industrialized murder,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gottlieb, Susannah Young-ah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Auden, W. H. > (Wystan Hugh), > 1907-1973 > Criticism and interpretation.
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and history.
Auden, W. H. > (Wystan Hugh), > 1907-1973.
English poetry.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • States of marriage
  • Poetry, prose, and a forgotten practice
  • "Civilization must be saved"
  • Interlude : the falling empire
  • Isotopes of love
  • From poem to volume
  • Anthropology, hell, goodbye
  • Coda : closing and opening thoughts.