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Auden's Apologies for Poetry by Auden, Wystan Hugh;McDiarmid, Lucy is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Common wisdom has it that when Auden left England for New York in January 1939, he had already written his best poems. He left behind (most critics believe) all the idealisms of the 1930s and all serious concerns to become an unserious poet, a writer of ingenious, agreeable, minor lyrics. Lucy McDiarmid argues that such readers, spoiled by the simple intensities of apocalypse, distort and misjudge Auden's greatest work. She shows that once Auden was freed from the obligation to criticize and ref

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Author

Auden, Wystan Hugh;McDiarmid, Lucy

Publisher

Princeton University Press;Princeton Legacy Library

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400860845

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Poetry

Updated

2026-03-25