Year: 2005
Author: Kirsch, Arthur C.
Publisher: Yale University Press: New Haven & London
ISBN: 0-300-10814-1
English language
Format: PDF
Number of Pages: 230

Arthur Kirsch, a leading Auden scholar, discusses the poet’s boyhood religious experience and the works he wrote before emigrating to the United States as well as his formal return to the Anglican Communion at the beginning of World War II. Kirsch then focuses on Auden’s criticism and on neglected and underestimated works of the poet’s later years. Through insightful readings of Auden’s writings and biography, Kirsch documents that Auden’s faith and his religious doubt were the matrix of his work and life.
"Auden and Christianity" has been chosen by the Conference on Christianity and Literature as the Book of the Year for 2006.

CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
INTRODUCTION xi
CHAPTER ONE: Early Years 1
CHAPTER TWO: For the Time Being 39
CHAPTER THREE: Auden’s Criticism 73
CHAPTER FOUR: “Horae Canonicae” 109
CHAPTER FIVE: Later Years 141
AFTERWORD 167
NOTES 181
INDEX 199

Arthur Kirsch is Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Virginia. He has written extensively on Shakespeare as well as Auden and recently edited a new edition of Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”

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