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TY - JOUR
T1 - Final Beliefs
T2 - Stevens and Auden
AU - Sharpe, Tony
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - Starting from the reference to Wallace Stevens in Auden’s poem ‘In Praise of Limestone’, this essay offers a comparative exploration of their similarities and differences concerning matters of ‘belief’, suggesting that the work of each involves awareness of the relation between ‘being’ and ‘nothingness’, and that, finally, each makes the attempt—in Auden’s words—to ‘find the mortal world enough’.
AB - Starting from the reference to Wallace Stevens in Auden’s poem ‘In Praise of Limestone’, this essay offers a comparative exploration of their similarities and differences concerning matters of ‘belief’, suggesting that the work of each involves awareness of the relation between ‘being’ and ‘nothingness’, and that, finally, each makes the attempt—in Auden’s words—to ‘find the mortal world enough’.
U2 - 10.1093/litthe/frq064
DO - 10.1093/litthe/frq064
M3 - Journal article
VL - 25
SP - 64
EP - 78
JO - Literature and Theology
JF - Literature and Theology
SN - 0269-1205
IS - 1
ER -