Poetic Art of W.H. Auden

✍ Scribed by John G. Blair

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 219
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 2302
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Attempts to isolate and describe the characteristic poetic mode in which Auden has worked for more than thirty years.

Originally published in 1965.

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✦ Table of Contents

PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. THE ANTI-ROMANTIC MODERN
II. THE POETICS OF PARABLE
III. ALLEGORY
IV. DRAMATIC INDIRECTIONS
V. VERBAL PLAYING IN FORM AND TECHNIQUE
VI. OPERA: The Rake's Progress
VII. CRITICAL CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
APPENDIX: AUDEN WORKS CITED
INDEX