Auden's Apologies for Poetry

by Lucy McDiarmid

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691603790
• ISBN13: 9780691603797
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"