Title Influential ghosts : a study of Auden's sources / Rachel Wetzsteon

Published New York : Routledge, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 128 pages) Series Studies in major literary authors Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered) Contents Hawk's visions and revisions : Auden's debt to Hardy -- Influential ghosts : structural allusion in Auden's early poetry -- Burying and praising : Auden's anti-elegiac elegies -- In health and in sickness : Auden and Kierkegaard's stormy marriage Summary "Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources explores some of the most important literary and philosophical influences on W.H. Auden's poetry. The study attempts to show that Auden's poetry derives much of its interest from the vast range of authors on whom he drew for inspiration. But it also suggest that his relationship to these writers was marked by a fascinating ambivalence. In chapters on Auden's relationship to Hardy and Kierkegaard, the study shows how, after lovingly apprenticing himself to their work and often borrowing stylistic or thematic features from it DL Hardy's sweeping "hawk's vision," Kierkegaard's urgent "leap of faith" DL he began to criticize the very things he had previously striven to emulate. In a chapter on Auden's elegies, the author argues that, alone among examples of this poetic genre, they both reverently mourn and harshly scrutinize their subjects (Yeats, Freud, Henry James and others). In a chapter on "structural allusion" in Auden's early poetry, the study posits that Auden singlehandedly invented a new kind of allusion in which he alludes to the form and subject matter of entire poems. But while doing so, he also finds fault with the attitudes (passivity, despair) depicted in them. In these structurally allusive poems DL as with his relationship to Hardy, Kierkegaard and his elegies' subjects DL Auden's sometimes accepting, sometimes skeptical attitude toward his poetic models is on powerful display, and finds a perfect counterpart in the tension between imitative form and critical content."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-122) and index Notes English Subject Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Criticism and interpretation Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 -- Influence Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 -- Influence SUBJECT Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 fast Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928 fast Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855 fast Auden, Wystan Hugh -- Quellen und Vorbilder. idsbb Auden, Wystan H. swd Subject Allusions in literature. POETRY -- American -- General. Allusions in literature Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Lyrik Vorlage Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2006025490 ISBN 9780203943724 0203943724 9781135922764 1135922764 1135922756 9781135922757 1281082228 9781281082220 9786611082222 6611082220

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