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The Hidden law : = the poetry of W.H...

Hecht, Anthony, (1923-2004.)

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The Hidden law : = the poetry of W.H. Auden /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Hidden law :/ Anthony Hecht.
Reminder of title:	the poetry of W.H. Auden /
Author:	Hecht, Anthony,
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. :Harvard University Press, : 1993.,
Description:	xi, 484 p. :ill ;25 cm.
Subject:	Poetry. -
ISBN:	0674390075

The Hidden law : = the poetry of W.H. Auden /
Hecht, Anthony,1923-2004.

The Hidden law :the poetry of W.H. Auden /Anthony Hecht. - Cambridge, Mass. :Harvard University Press,1993. - xi, 484 p. :ill ;25 cm.

Includes index.

Everything that counts is well veiled : poems --

In this study - the fruit of a lifelong critical and imaginative engagement with W H. Auden's works - Anthony Hecht identifies and traces consistent habits of thought and belief within the poet's extensive and varied writings and through his celebrated conversions and repudiations, literary and otherwise. Hecht acknowledges that Auden's poems "both invite the intrusive scrutiny of the cryptographer and deny him access." Yet the readings he offers of poems from every phase of Auden's career, along with dramatic works and critical essays, manage to explicate and illuminate Auden's rich (and often cryptic) allusiveness without murdering to dissect. Among the themes that connect Auden's works are his deep interest in the workings of language; his notion of the ultimate frivolity of art; his interest in the nature of heroism; his understanding of the relation of public to private life; the development of his religious thought; and what Auden called the "hidden law" that governs human existence - a strict and retaliatory force, something like poetic justice, that gives form to our best literature and shapes our personal fates. Hecht identifies these preoccupations in Auden's work - and shows how they cut across the many genres in which he wrote - without losing sight of each poem's individual history and context. As one of Auden's most distinguished poetic heirs, Anthony Hecht is uniquely qualified to illuminate both the reading and the writing of these essential works of twentieth-century literature.

ISBN: 0674390075

LCCN: 92025497 Subjects--Personal Names:

3274668
Auden, W. H.
1907-1973--Criticism and interpretation.Subjects--Topical Terms:

528749
Poetry.
Subjects--Index Terms:

English poetryIndex Terms--Genre/Form:

2020027
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: PR6001.U4 / .Z73 1993

Dewey Class. No.: 811/.52

The Hidden law : = the poetry of W.H. Auden /
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505 0 # $t Everything that counts is well veiled : poems -- $t The curative power of love : on this island -- $t Poetry makes nothing happen : another time -- $t A sort of practical holiday : letter to Lord Byron -- $t A civitas of sound : new year letter -- $t God will cheat no one : for the time being -- $t Amor Loci : nones -- $t In solitude, for company : the shield of achilles -- $t The hidden law.
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