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Looking at Ballad Form, and the Nature of Voice

by Joe Weil March 31, 2010 Art

One of the things that may irritate a post structuralist reader about Auden is that he delights in “knowing” things-even those things which are ugly and disastrous to know. For example, his greatest praise of old masters: “About suffering, the old masters they were never wrong.” Auden likes being right. He likes being elegant. He…

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