“We Are Changed by What We Change”: W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter
This paper considers representations of change, internal and external to a changeable and changing subject, in W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter. This long poem focuses on three aspects of change: personal responses to a sense of accountability, as experienced especially by poetic artists; diagnoses of...
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| description | This paper considers representations of change, internal and external to a changeable and changing subject, in W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter. This long poem focuses on three aspects of change: personal responses to a sense of accountability, as experienced especially by poetic artists; diagnoses of change, across three historical epochs, within a world exposed at once to individual and public pressures, most recently those of crowd-consciousness and Fascist dictatorship; and a possible embrace of performative genres and modes, including dramatic conversation and Horatian epistolography, through which these lines of personal and conceptual discourse may tend towards convergence. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-137dd8dd077d48a69e3e8e85de8f3cb02024-12-19T11:51:43ZengWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu WrocławskiegoActa Universitatis Wratislaviensis. Anglica Wratislaviensia0301-79662957-23392024-12-01622334710.19195/0301-7966.62.2.317432“We Are Changed by What We Change”: W. H. Auden’s New Year LetterRowland Cotterill0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6041-8578a:1:{s:5:"en_US";s:19:"Independent scholar";}This paper considers representations of change, internal and external to a changeable and changing subject, in W. H. Auden’s New Year Letter. This long poem focuses on three aspects of change: personal responses to a sense of accountability, as experienced especially by poetic artists; diagnoses of change, across three historical epochs, within a world exposed at once to individual and public pressures, most recently those of crowd-consciousness and Fascist dictatorship; and a possible embrace of performative genres and modes, including dramatic conversation and Horatian epistolography, through which these lines of personal and conceptual discourse may tend towards convergence.https://wuwr.pl/awr/article/view/15704w. h. audennew year letterlife-writingchangeconversionhorace |
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