Auden's Apologies for Poetry / / Lucy McDiarmid.
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 McDia...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- INTRODUCTION. The Finest Tumbler of His Day
- CHAPTER ONE. Pardon and "Pardon"
- CHAPTER TWO. The Generous Hour: Poems and Plays of the 1930s
- CHAPTER THREE. The Other Side of the Mirror: New Year Letter, For the Time Being, and The Sea and the Mirror
- CHAPTER FOUR. Apologies for Poetry: Poems 1948-1973
- CONCLUSION. Writing This for You to Open When I Am Gone
- APPENDIX. The Manuscript Drafts of New Year Letter, Part III, Opening Passage
- Index