144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
List of Abbreviations. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Auden and Allusion 1. Hawk’s Visions and Revisions: Auden’s Debt to Hardy 2. Influential Ghosts: Structural Allusion in Auden’s Early Poetry 3. Burying and Praising: Auden’s Anti-Elegiac Elegies 4. In Health and in Sickness: Auden and Kierkegaard’s Stormy Marriage Notes. Works Cited. Index
Biography
Rachel Wetzsteon
