TY - BOOK AU - Boly,John R. TI - Reading Auden: The Returns of Caliban SN - 9781501745522 AV - PR6001.U4 Z6 1991 U1 - 811/.52 20 PY - 2019///] CY - Ithaca, NY : PB - Cornell University Press, KW - Literary Studies KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations of Works Cited --; Introduction: Reading Auden --; CHAPTER ONE. Homage to a Legend --; CHAPTER TWO. Psychosomatic Lessons --; CHAPTER THREE. Effigies and Auditors --; CHAPTER FOUR. The Enemies of Promise --; CHAPTER FIV.E Orators and Others: Auden 's Civic Voices --; CHAPTER SIX. A Necessary Angel --; CHAPTER SEVEN. The Returns of Caliban --; Index; restricted access N2 - Reading Auden is the first book to consider the poetry of W. H. Auden from the perspective of his own theory of the text, rather than that of the romantic norms he deliberately rejected. According to John R. Boly, Auden departs from the romantics in approaching the poem not as a means of expressing an emotion or conveying an idea but as a game whose goal is the continuous transformation of its own rules of play UR - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745522 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501745522 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501745522/original ER -