LEADER 03310nam 22007094a 450 001 9910958172903321 005 20251116215606.0 010 $a9786611721695 010 $a9781281721693 010 $a1281721697 010 $a9780300128659 010 $a0300128657 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300128659 035 $a(CKB)1000000000471749 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022174722 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107503 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11114265 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107503 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10012588 035 $a(PQKB)11186829 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000167147 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420092 035 $a(DE-B1597)484950 035 $a(OCoLC)1013942597 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300128659 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420092 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10170782 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL172169 035 $a(OCoLC)923590019 035 $a(Perlego)1089344 035 $z(OCoLC)1013942597 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000471749 100 $a20050210d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAuden and Christianity /$fArthur Kirsch 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xxi, 207 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a9780300108149 311 0 $a0300108141 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [181]-198) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$tCHAPTER ONE. Early Years --$tCHAPTER TWO. For the Time Being --$tCHAPTER THREE. Auden's Criticism --$tCHAPTER FOUR. "Horae Canonicae" --$tCHAPTER FIVE. Later Years --$tAFTERWORD --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aOne of the twentieth century's most important poets, W. H. Auden stands as an eloquent example of an individual within whom thought and faith not only coexist but indeed nourish each other. This book is the first to explore in detail how Auden's religious faith helped him to come to terms with himself as an artist and as a man, despite his early disinterest in religion and his homosexuality. Auden and Christianity shows also how Auden's Anglican faith informs, and is often the explicit subject of, his poetry and prose. Arthur Kirsch, a leading Auden scholar, discusses the poet's boyhood religious experience and the works he wrote before emigrating to the United States as well as his formal return to the Anglican Communion at the beginning of World War II. Kirsch then focuses on Auden's criticism and on neglected and underestimated works of the poet's later years. Through insightful readings of Auden's writings and biography, Kirsch documents that Auden's faith and his religious doubt were the matrix of his work and life. 606 $aChristian biography$zEngland 606 $aPoets, English$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aChristian biography 615 0$aPoets, English 676 $a811/.52 676 $aB 700 $aKirsch$b Arthur C$01811175 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910958172903321 996 $aAuden and Christianity$94362878 997 $aUNINA