Poor Auden! In death he is a "stick for one and a shield the other". As to facts, I have... [MORE]

Barry Larking 

Mar 14, 2008 05:11

In his poem, September 1, 1939, Auden speaks directly about the l930s as "a low dishonest decade." This would include... [MORE]

Paul Dresman 

Mar 10, 2008 11:59

Nope, none of it works. He didn't go to New York to pass some literary baton, he didn't go to... [MORE]

Robert Smith 

Mar 10, 2008 05:44

Humorlesss? My goodness. And to charge Auden's "cloudiness" to Kierkegaard seems a real injustice. Has Ormsby read the aesthete's volume... [MORE]

Jack Johnson 

Mar 9, 2008 23:46

Auden's defection was the first of two times that a poet's actions sparked debated in the House of Commons (the... [MORE]

Daniel Heinde 

Mar 9, 2008 19:26

To assert, as this critic does, that writing prose improved Auden's poetry reveals a tin ear for verse. I defy... [MORE]

lawrence richette 

Mar 9, 2008 19:12

While it's true that Auden's literary cohort were pacifists, it is difficult to overstate how much Auden's private life factored... [MORE]

Deschanel 

Mar 9, 2008 15:23

As an historian, Auden got it right, I am sure... [MORE]

Artemio Benavides 

Mar 8, 2008 17:07

Was Auden so great that he had to be secreted away to England's strategic hinterland like the atomic bomb secrets... [MORE]

Toby Mottram 

Mar 8, 2008 16:57

The master of ironic subversion of himself Kierkegaard was anything but humorless. [MORE]

Shalom Freedman 

Mar 8, 2008 14:15

I don't think ironic subversion is funny [MORE]

Stephen H 

Mar 9, 2008 14:19

I should, perhaps, not take Ormsby's off-hand remark about Kierkegaard's humorlessness too seriously, but it is significant as yet another... [MORE]

Jan Sjåvik 

Mar 8, 2008 14:02

A fine article; no complaint, but a quibble. No one who knows the work of Kierkegaard could possibly describe him...

David Bentley 

Mar 8, 2008 10:59

Migration mean change, and change always bring new biginning.Those who migrate they are unsatsifated bored in their native land .... [MORE]

Ramesh Raghuvanshi 

Mar 8, 2008 02:29

Auden deserves all those high praises. Further he presided over the transfer the great Marble Laurel Wreath that passed from... [MORE]

Tom Disch 

Mar 5, 2008 06:57

Too bad that all Ormsby can remark about Kierkegaard is that he was 'dismal,' thus faulting Auden's appreciation of Kierkegaard's... [MORE]

F. Major 

Mar 9, 2008 01:11

Whatever misguided patriotism may call Auden, no one can call him a coward. In 1939 (as in 2008), living openly... [MORE]

Marcy Haynes 

Mar 9, 2008 01:15