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W.H. Auden at Work
The Craft of Revision
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2023
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W.H. Auden at Work: The Craft of Revision explores revision in the poetry of W.H. Auden, focusing on Auden’s early sonnet sequences, “A Voyage,” and “Sonnets from China.” It enumerates in great detail the substantial changes Auden made to those sequences over the course of thirty years. Auden’s observations are an amalgam of abstract philosophizing on the nature of humanity, its restlessness and tendency to create conflict, as well as a meticulous catalogue of sensory details garnered from his observations and interviews. Alexis Levitin and Joshua Kulseth place the original versions of the poems alongside their revisions, and thoroughly dissecting the changes which were wrought, commenting upon each in terms of grammar and syntax—leaving the narrativistic changes relatively untouched.
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Copyright year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-2294-3
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-2295-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
170
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Acknowledgments No access
Author’s Preface No access Pages 1 - 6
Reader’s Preface No access Pages 7 - 16
Introduction No access Pages 17 - 24
London to Hongkong—A Voyage No access Pages 25 - 48
