SONGS AGAINST THE DEVIL: THE EXORCISTIC IN AUDEN
This essay reassesses the religious development of Auden's poetry. It suggests that Christianity's primary attraction for him lay in it promise of deliverance from negative social and psychological forces. For faith, such forces are demonic ‘powers of this world’ which the Word has already...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1999
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Literature and theology
Year: 1999, Volume: 13, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-33 |
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| Summary: | This essay reassesses the religious development of Auden's poetry. It suggests that Christianity's primary attraction for him lay in it promise of deliverance from negative social and psychological forces. For faith, such forces are demonic ‘powers of this world’ which the Word has already vanquished. In witnessing to the victory of the Word, Christian poetry can participate in this cosmic exorcism |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/13.1.17 |