The Hidden Law (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Anthony Hecht
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Literature, Friendship, Poetry or poets, Criticism, Loneliness, Opera, operas, or operettas, Signs or symbols
Wystan Hugh Auden must be ranked with T. S. Eliot, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and Robert Frost as one of the major voices of twentieth century poetry. Some of his poems, like the justly celebrated “Musee des Beaux Arts,” have become mainstays in poetry anthologies and textbooks. Important poets such as James Merrill and John Ashbery-to name only two—are deeply indebted to Auden for both his style and subject matter. Auden acknowledged his own debt to Yeats, Frost, and Eliot in the many essays and articles he composed, especially after moving to the United...
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