Auden and Christianity. By Arthur Kirsch
Arthur Kirsch's intellectual biography of W.H. Auden is the first full-length published study of the relationship between the poet's faith and his writing; and, as the author himself acknowledges, it is a book that his subject, who claimed to disapprove of such analytical accounts of one&#...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 462-464 |
| Review of: | Auden and Christianity (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005) (Rogers, Tom)
Auden and Christianity (New Haven [u.a.] : Yale Univ. Press, 2005) (Rogers, Tom) |
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| Summary: | Arthur Kirsch's intellectual biography of W.H. Auden is the first full-length published study of the relationship between the poet's faith and his writing; and, as the author himself acknowledges, it is a book that his subject, who claimed to disapprove of such analytical accounts of one's faith, might well have found unpalatable. Nevertheless, given the prominence of Christian themes in his work, it is a necessary and long-overdue contribution to Auden scholarship; and, on the whole, Kirsch successfully demonstrates what is consistent and idiosyncratic about the poet's faith, whilst allowing for the flux and creativity of his thinking., Most of the relevant biographical facts incorporated into the book are already well-documented. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl043 |