Concentrating on W. H. Auden's work from the late 1930s, when he
seeks to understand the poet's responsibility in the face of a
triumphant fascism, to the late 1950s, when he discerns an
irreconcilable "divorce" between poetry and history in light of
industrialized murder, this startling new study reveals the
intensity of the poet's struggles with the meanings of history.
Through meticulous readings, significant archival findings, and
critical reflection, Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb presents a new
image and understanding of Auden's achievement and reveals how his
version of modernism illuminates urgent contemporary issues and
theoretical paradigms: from the meaning of marriage equality to the
persistence of fascism; from critical theory to psychoanalysis;
from precarity to postcolonial studies. "The muse does not like
being forced to choose between Agit-prop and Mallarme," Auden
writes with characteristic lucidity, and this study elucidates the
probity, humor, and technical skill with which his responses to
historical reality in the mid-twentieth century illuminate our
world today.
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