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TY - CHAP
T1 - W.H. Auden
T2 - the loveliness that is the case
AU - Sharpe, Tony
PY - 2015/3
Y1 - 2015/3
N2 - In this essay I suggest that Auden’s conception of beauty and his deployment of the term are accompanied by a sense of its limitations and even its dangers. This parallels his concerns with the responsibility – and irresponsibility – of poetry, and the move in his own writing away from what he came to see as the rhetorical self-indulgence of the earlier work, toward ‘the magnificently sane, meditative, judicial poems’ (Seamus Heaney) of his post-English period. ‘Art’, declared Auden, ‘arises out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not identical’: the beauty that persists, for him, is not as a category of the eternal but an attribute qualified by time.
AB - In this essay I suggest that Auden’s conception of beauty and his deployment of the term are accompanied by a sense of its limitations and even its dangers. This parallels his concerns with the responsibility – and irresponsibility – of poetry, and the move in his own writing away from what he came to see as the rhetorical self-indulgence of the earlier work, toward ‘the magnificently sane, meditative, judicial poems’ (Seamus Heaney) of his post-English period. ‘Art’, declared Auden, ‘arises out of our desire for both beauty and truth and our knowledge that they are not identical’: the beauty that persists, for him, is not as a category of the eternal but an attribute qualified by time.
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9781848935112
SP - 87
EP - 102
BT - The persistence of beauty
A2 - O'Neill, Michael
A2 - Sandy, Mark
A2 - , Sarah Wootton
PB - Pickering and Chatto
CY - London
ER -