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...
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Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Zentralbibliothek
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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 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
Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-122) and index.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-190) and index.
A starting point -- Buzzing -- Possession -- The sounds become fury -- Dust tracks on some roads -- Sparring -- Tit for tat -- Literary hopscotch -- Crossing the finish lines.
