“We Are Changed by What We Change”: W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter
This paper considers representations of change, internal and external to a changeable and changing subject, in W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter. This long poem focuses on three aspects of change: personal responses to a sense of accountability, as experienced especially by poetic artists; diagnoses of...
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| Language: | English |
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego
2024-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Anglica Wratislaviensia |
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| Online Access: | https://wuwr.pl/awr/article/view/15704 |
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| Summary: | This paper considers representations of change, internal and external to a changeable and changing subject, in W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter. This long poem focuses on three aspects of change: personal responses to a sense of accountability, as experienced especially by poetic artists; diagnoses of change, across three historical epochs, within a world exposed at once to individual and public pressures, most recently those of crowd-consciousness and Fascist dictatorship; and a possible embrace of performative genres and modes, including dramatic conversation and Horatian epistolography, through which these lines of personal and conceptual discourse may tend towards convergence. |
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| ISSN: | 0301-7966 2957-2339 |