Golden Boy
Denis Donoghue, 22 December 1983
W.H.Auden: The Critical Heritage
edited by John Haffenden.
Routledge, 535 pp., £19.95, September 1983,0 7100 9350 0 Show More
edited by John Haffenden.
Routledge, 535 pp., £19.95, September 1983,
Auden: A Carnival of Intellect
by Edward Callan.
Oxford, 299 pp., £12.50, August 1983,0 19 503168 7 Show More
by Edward Callan.
Oxford, 299 pp., £12.50, August 1983,
Drawn from the Life: A Memoir
by Robert Medley.
Faber, 251 pp., £12.50, November 1983,0 571 13043 7 Show More
by Robert Medley.
Faber, 251 pp., £12.50, November 1983,
“... of the machinery of present-day thought’, take their place in ‘the normal and rational tragic form, and indeed what constitutes the tragic situation’. The play – Empson took it as that, not as the ‘charade’ Auden called it – had ‘the sort of completeness that makes a work seem to define the attitude of a generation’. This notion, that Auden ... ”