Premium Content Three examples of Auden’s wartime poetry: In Time of War: Sonnet XVI, Spain 1937, and 1st September 1939
By Duncan Scott - May 29, 2008
“His effort to examine poetry with a coroner’s or detective’s clinical eye conceives of poetry as engaged with history and society”
Loris Mirella (on W.H. Auden), “Realigning Modernism”
Auden’s poems “Spain, 1937”, “Sonnet XVI”, and “1st September 1939” all testify to the English poet’s “clinical” detachment, a feature of his writing. Rather than…
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