From myth to allegory: a study of the poetry of W.H. Auden, with special reference to the poet's intention

Title: From myth to allegory: a study of the poetry of W.H. Auden, with special reference to the poet's intention
Creator: Bell, I M
ThesisAdvisor: Butler, Guy
Subject: Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
Date: 1968
Type: Thesis
Type: Doctoral
Type: PhD
Identifier: vital:2290
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1009514
Identifier: Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation
Description: The more attentively Auden's poetry is studied, the more one critical problem emerges. How can the poet of the "twenties and ' thirties be reconciled with the poet of the last three decades? "We've all got to come to terms with the later Auden" writes Professor Richard Hoggart, but he does not explain how. The man who wrote the pungent early poetry with its constant reiteration of warnings to a sick society that what was needed was " … death, death of the grain, our death, Death of the old gang … " before it could achieve "new styles of architecture, a change of heart", seems an entirely different person from the man who is on the side of Authority to-day; that is to say in so far as Auden can ever be said to be definitely on one side or another. Intro. p. 1.
Format: 332 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, English
Language: English
Rights: Bell, I M

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