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W. H. Auden oli XX sajandi suuremaid luuletajaid, pillav virtuoos, kes valdas kõikvõimalikke stiile ja ˛anre. Kogumik annab läbilõike ta tuntumatest paladest, sisaldades ballaade, armastusluulet, satiiri, poliitilist tunnistajaluulet, eleegiaid, epigramme ja mõtteluulet. Auden oli ka aus ja vaimukas esseist, kelle aforistlikud kirjutised käsitlevad loomingut ja kriitikat ning süüvivad moodsa inimese ol
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First published February 1, 2012
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About the author
W.H. Auden
621 books1,069 followersPoems, published in such collections as
Look, Stranger!
(1936) and
The Shield of Achilles
(1955), established importance of British-American writer and critic Wystan Hugh Auden in 20th-century literature.
In and near Birmingham, he developed in a professional middle-class family. He attended English independent schools and studied at Christ church, Oxford. From 1927, Auden and Christopher Isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship despite briefer but more intense relations with other men. Auden passed a few months in Berlin in 1928 and 1929.
He then spent five years from 1930 to 1935, teaching in English schools and then traveled to Iceland and China for books about his journeys. People noted stylistic and technical achievement, engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and variety in tone, form and content. He came to wide attention at the age of 23 years in 1930 with his first book, Poems ; The Orators followed in 1932.
Three plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood in 1935 to 1938 built his reputation in a left-wing politics.
People best know this Anglo for love such as "Funeral Blues," for political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939," for culture and psychology, such as The Age of Anxiety , and for religion, such as For the Time Being and "Horae Canonicae." In 1939, partly to escape a liberal reputation, Auden moved to the United States. Auden and Christopher Isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship to 1939. In 1939, Auden fell in lust with Chester Kallman and regarded their relation as a marriage.
From 1941, Auden taught in universities. This relationship ended in 1941, when Chester Kallman refused to accept the faithful relation that Auden demanded, but the two maintained their friendship.
Auden taught in universities through 1945. His work, including the long For the Time Being and The Sea and the Mirror , in the 1940s focused on religious themes. He attained citizenship in 1946.
The title of his long The Age of Anxiety , a popular phrase, described the modern era; it won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. From 1947, he wintered in New York and summered in Ischia. From 1947, Auden and Chester Kallman lived in the same house or apartment in a non-sexual relation and often collaborated on opera libretti, such as The Rake's Progress for music of Igor Stravinsky until death of Auden.
Occasional visiting professorships followed in the 1950s. From 1956, he served as professor at Oxford. He wintered in New York and summered in Ischia through 1957. From 1958, he wintered usually in New York and summered in Kirchstetten, Austria.
He served as professor at Oxford to 1961; his popular lectures with students and faculty served as the basis of his prose The Dyer's Hand in 1962.
Auden, a prolific prose essayist, reviewed political, psychological and religious subjects, and worked at various times on documentary films, plays, and other forms of performance. Throughout his controversial and influential career, views on his work ranged from sharply dismissive, treating him as a lesser follower of William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot, to strongly affirmative, as claim of Joseph Brodsky of his "greatest mind of the twentieth century."
He wintered in Oxford in 1972/1973 and summered in Kirchstetten, Austria, until the end of his life.
After his death, films, broadcasts, and popular media enabled people to know and ton note much more widely "Funeral Blues," "Musée des Beaux Arts," "Refugee Blues," "The Unknown Citizen," and "September 1, 1939," t
In and near Birmingham, he developed in a professional middle-class family. He attended English independent schools and studied at Christ church, Oxford. From 1927, Auden and Christopher Isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship despite briefer but more intense relations with other men. Auden passed a few months in Berlin in 1928 and 1929.
He then spent five years from 1930 to 1935, teaching in English schools and then traveled to Iceland and China for books about his journeys. People noted stylistic and technical achievement, engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and variety in tone, form and content. He came to wide attention at the age of 23 years in 1930 with his first book, Poems ; The Orators followed in 1932.
Three plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood in 1935 to 1938 built his reputation in a left-wing politics.
People best know this Anglo for love such as "Funeral Blues," for political and social themes, such as "September 1, 1939," for culture and psychology, such as The Age of Anxiety , and for religion, such as For the Time Being and "Horae Canonicae." In 1939, partly to escape a liberal reputation, Auden moved to the United States. Auden and Christopher Isherwood maintained a lasting but intermittent sexual friendship to 1939. In 1939, Auden fell in lust with Chester Kallman and regarded their relation as a marriage.
From 1941, Auden taught in universities. This relationship ended in 1941, when Chester Kallman refused to accept the faithful relation that Auden demanded, but the two maintained their friendship.
Auden taught in universities through 1945. His work, including the long For the Time Being and The Sea and the Mirror , in the 1940s focused on religious themes. He attained citizenship in 1946.
The title of his long The Age of Anxiety , a popular phrase, described the modern era; it won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. From 1947, he wintered in New York and summered in Ischia. From 1947, Auden and Chester Kallman lived in the same house or apartment in a non-sexual relation and often collaborated on opera libretti, such as The Rake's Progress for music of Igor Stravinsky until death of Auden.
Occasional visiting professorships followed in the 1950s. From 1956, he served as professor at Oxford. He wintered in New York and summered in Ischia through 1957. From 1958, he wintered usually in New York and summered in Kirchstetten, Austria.
He served as professor at Oxford to 1961; his popular lectures with students and faculty served as the basis of his prose The Dyer's Hand in 1962.
Auden, a prolific prose essayist, reviewed political, psychological and religious subjects, and worked at various times on documentary films, plays, and other forms of performance. Throughout his controversial and influential career, views on his work ranged from sharply dismissive, treating him as a lesser follower of William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot, to strongly affirmative, as claim of Joseph Brodsky of his "greatest mind of the twentieth century."
He wintered in Oxford in 1972/1973 and summered in Kirchstetten, Austria, until the end of his life.
After his death, films, broadcasts, and popular media enabled people to know and ton note much more widely "Funeral Blues," "Musée des Beaux Arts," "Refugee Blues," "The Unknown Citizen," and "September 1, 1939," t
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April 16, 2013
See peaks olema esimene (ja seni ainuke) eestikeelne raamat ühe möödunud sajandi olulisima autori teostest. Tõsi, eks neid olulisimaid oli kokkuvõttes mitusada aga ikkagi on iseenesest kas veider või tähelepanuväärne (sõltuvalt vaatenurgast), et see nii kaua aega võttis.
Luule koha pealt ei ole ma kindlasti kõige pädevam üldse mingit hinnangut andma aga esseede juures lõi mind üsna kohe pahviks see, kui täpne on Väljataga poolt Audeni geeniuse üheks iseloomustavaks väljendiks kasutatud "pillav virtuooslikkus". Neist esseedest võiks välja võtta peaaegu ükskõik millise lause ja ülendada eraldiseisvaks aforismiks või mõtteteraks, nii kontsentreeritud on need. Ilmselt on tegu luuletaja praktilise meelega: tekst peab olema ilus, säästlik, korrastatud ja selle detailid peavad olema allutatud terviklikkusele. Kuigi just selle viimasega on paradoksaalsel kombel pisemaid probleeme, nimelt needsamad detailid kipuvad tihtipeale olema nii võimsalt sõnastatud ja soleerivad, et neist homogeense terviku kokkupanemine ja selle terviku ühtlaseks silumine võib osutuda kõvasti pusimist vajavaks tegevuseks.
Luule koha pealt ei ole ma kindlasti kõige pädevam üldse mingit hinnangut andma aga esseede juures lõi mind üsna kohe pahviks see, kui täpne on Väljataga poolt Audeni geeniuse üheks iseloomustavaks väljendiks kasutatud "pillav virtuooslikkus". Neist esseedest võiks välja võtta peaaegu ükskõik millise lause ja ülendada eraldiseisvaks aforismiks või mõtteteraks, nii kontsentreeritud on need. Ilmselt on tegu luuletaja praktilise meelega: tekst peab olema ilus, säästlik, korrastatud ja selle detailid peavad olema allutatud terviklikkusele. Kuigi just selle viimasega on paradoksaalsel kombel pisemaid probleeme, nimelt needsamad detailid kipuvad tihtipeale olema nii võimsalt sõnastatud ja soleerivad, et neist homogeense terviku kokkupanemine ja selle terviku ühtlaseks silumine võib osutuda kõvasti pusimist vajavaks tegevuseks.
January 6, 2017
Elioti kogumikust liikusin edasi Audeni poole, aga seekord jäi mulje lahjemaks. Köite esimene pool, ehk siis 39 luuletust, ei kütnud erilisi kirgi. Kommentaare lugedes muutus pilt natuke huvitavamaks, aga paratamatult läks luuletuste võlu esmasel lugemisel minust mööda.
5 esseed olid köitvamad, aga kahvatusid siiski Elioti kõrval. Huvitavaid mõtteid leidis ikka, aga samamoodi üles ehitatud intrigeerivaid ja sügavaid arutelusid jäi vajaka.
5 esseed olid köitvamad, aga kahvatusid siiski Elioti kõrval. Huvitavaid mõtteid leidis ikka, aga samamoodi üles ehitatud intrigeerivaid ja sügavaid arutelusid jäi vajaka.
September 17, 2013
Esseede eest annaks lisapunkte, aga luuletusi tahaks inglise keeles lugeda. Mitte, et tõlge kehv oleks - kaugeltki mitte. Lihtsalt, tahaks originaali näha. (:
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