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W. H. Auden

The Complete Works of W. H. Auden

Libretti and Other Dramatic Writings, 1939-1973

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W. H. Auden called opera the last refuge of the High Style, and considered it the one art in which the grand manner survived the ironic levelings of modernity. He began writing libretti soon after he arrived in America in 1939 and abandoned his earlier attempts to write public, political drama. Opera gave him the opportunity to rise to the high style in public, not in an attempt to elevate his own status as a poet, but in service of the heroic voice of the singers. These works present their mythical actions with a direct intensity unlike anything in even his greatest poems. In this volume of Auden and Chester Kallman's libretti, extensive his… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kallman, Chester / Mendelson, Edward (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-03301-3
  • EAN: 9780691033013
  • Produktnummer: 19606955
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
  • Seitenangabe: 800 S.
  • Masse: H16.3 cm x B24.2 cm x D5.8 cm 1'242 g
  • Gewicht: 1242
  • Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor


Edward Mendelson is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and the author of Early Auden (Viking). He is the editor of two volumes of Auden's poetry, Collected Poems (Random House) and The English Auden (Random House).

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