Auden International: Place, Language, and Cold-War Poetry

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angličtina
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Auden International: Place, Language, and Cold-War Poetry
Original language description
This essay argues that there is a tension in W. H. Auden's postwar poetry between his desire to speak for his epoch and his imaginative engagement in the particular landscapes and cultures of Ischia and Kirchstetten, where he had summer houses. He employed his "epochal" style (the construction of a universal self, references to generic land- and cityscapes that blur national distinctions, his assumption that certain crises and preoccupations are shared across the globe, his development of what John Fuller refers to as a "generalized symbolic form" in his poetry), in major sequences such as "Thanksgiving for a Habitat" and "Bucolics." Countering this was his involvement in the local culture of Kirchstetten, as evidenced for instance in poems like "Whitsunday in Kirchstetten," "Elegy," and "Josef Weinheber." These poems are indices of conflicting forces in his imagination: the ambition to write an all-encompassing poetry of the "age" and the "world," and an attention to the details of ex
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Publication year
2014
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Article name in the collection
The Rainbow of American Poetry : Proceedings of the 18th International Colloquium of American Studies
ISBN
978-80-244-4360-7
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Number of pages
27
Pages from-to
157-184
Publisher name
Palacký University
Place of publication
Olomouc
Event location
Olomouc
Event date
Oct 25, 2012
Type of event by nationality
WRD - Celosvětová akce
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