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, this startling new study reveals the intensity of the poet''s struggles with the meanings of history. Through meticulous rea...
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, this startling new study reveals the intensity of the poet''s struggles with the meanings of history. Through meticulous rea...
