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By Anthony Hecht
ISBN-10: 0674390067
ISBN-13: 9780674390065
During this research - the fruit of a lifelong serious and imaginitive engagement with W.H. Auden's works - Anthony Hecht identifies and strains constant conduct of proposal and trust in the poet's wide and sundry writings and during his celebrated conversions and repudiations, literary and differently. Hecht recognizes that Auden's poems "both invite the intrusive scrutiny of the cryptographer and deny him access". but the readings he bargains of poems from each section of Auden's profession, in addition to dramatic works and important essays, have the ability to explicate and light up Auden's wealthy (and frequently cryptic) allusiveness with no murdering to dissect. one of the issues that attach Auden's works are his deep curiosity within the workings of language; his suggestion of the last word frivolity of artwork; his curiosity within the nature of heroism; his knowing of the relation of public to personal lifestyles; the improvement of his non secular idea; and what Auden referred to as the "hidden legislation" that governs human lifestyles - a strict and retaliatory strength, anything like poetic justice, that offers shape to our greatest literature and shapes our own fates. Hecht identifies those preoccupations in Auden's works - and indicates how they minimize around the many genres during which he wrote - with no wasting sight of every poem's person heritage and context. As certainly one of Auden's poetic heirs, Anthony Hecht is definitely certified to light up either the analyzing and the writing of those major works of twentieth century literature.
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These two poems, "Love by ambition" and "From the very first coming down," are written in a voice that is essentially private. But there is a "public" voice to poems that Auden was writing at pretty much the same time. " It is a kind of "blues," imitative, Edward Mendelson suggests, of Sophie Tucker, and certainly familiar enough as a type of complaint. " The language of the poem involves none of the elliptical tricks, grammatical ambiguities, short circuits of syntax that so mark the "private" poems.
Their ways were suited to an agricultural land But lending on interest they did not understand. Luther and Calvin put in a word The god of your priests, they said, is absurd. His laws are inscrutable and depend upon grace So laissez-faire please for the chosen race. The bourgeois thought this splendid advice They cut off the head of their king in a trice They enclosed the common lands and laid them for sheep And the peasants were told they could play bo-peep. Poems 33 They invited them into a squalid town They put them in factories and did them down Then they ruined each other for they didn't know how They were making the conditions that are killing them now.
In the vaudeville context of The Dance of Death what we get is a sort of Reader's Digest or Cliffs Notes version of elementary history. The Greeks were balanced, their art was great They thought out in detail the city state But the gap to their interior was found at Carcassonne So trade moved westward and they were gone. The Romans as every schoolboy knows United an empire with their roman nose But they caught malaria and they couldn't keep accounts And barbarians conquered them who couldn't pronounce.
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