Auden and Christianity / Arthur Kirsch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirsch, Arthur C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973.

Auden, W. H.

Christian biography--England.

Christian biography.

Poets, English--20th century--Biography.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxi, 207 p.))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

One of the twentieth century's most important poets, W. H. Auden stands as an eloquent example of an individual within whom thought and faith not only coexist but indeed nourish each other. This book is the first to explore in detail how Auden's religious faith helped him to come to terms with himself as an artist and as a man, despite his early disinterest in religion and his homosexuality. Auden and Christianity shows also how Auden's Anglican faith informs, and is often the explicit subject of, his poetry and prose. Arthur Kirsch, a leading Auden scholar, discusses the poet's boyhood religious experience and the works he wrote before emigrating to the United States as well as his formal return to the Anglican Communion at the beginning of World War II. Kirsch then focuses on Auden's criticism and on neglected and underestimated works of the poet's later years. Through insightful readings of Auden's writings and biography, Kirsch documents that Auden's faith and his religious doubt were the matrix of his work and life.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE. Early Years

CHAPTER TWO. For the Time Being

CHAPTER THREE. Auden's Criticism

CHAPTER FOUR. "Horae Canonicae"

CHAPTER FIVE. Later Years

AFTERWORD

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-198) and index.

ISBN:

9786611721695

9781281721693

1281721697

9780300128659

0300128657

OCLC:

1013942597