Influential Ghosts: A Study of Auden's Sources

ISBN-13: 9780415762816 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014

Rachel Wetzsteon

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'Influential Ghosts' 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.

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List of Abbreviations.  Acknowledgments.  Introduction: Auden and Allusion  1. Hawk’s Visions and Revisions: Auden’s Debt to Hardy  2. Influential Ghosts: Structural Allusion in Auden’s Early Poetry  3. Burying and Praising: Auden’s Anti-Elegiac Elegies  4. In Health and in Sickness: Auden and Kierkegaard’s Stormy Marriage  Notes.  Works Cited.  Index

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Rachel Wetzsteon