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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetzsteon, Rachel.

Series:

Studies in major literary authors (Unnumbered)

Studies in major literary authors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Auden, W. H.

Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928--Influence.

Hardy, Thomas.

Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855--Influence.

Kierkegaard, Søren.

Allusions in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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 - Hardy's s

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-122) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-92275-6

1-135-92276-4

1-281-08222-8

9786611082222

0-203-94372-4

9780203943724

OCLC:

437179550