tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post8685477587672447258..comments2024-03-28T05:13:13.921-04:00Comments on Books, Inq. — The Epilogue: A poet in full ...Frank Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-60869494885321847972007-05-14T21:02:00.000-04:002007-05-14T21:02:00.000-04:00Well, Dave, I think you've settled it: Heaney was ...Well, Dave, I think you've settled it: Heaney was taken out of context. He may cavil a bit, but he does seem to give Auden his due.Frank Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-10003981769074670112007-05-14T16:31:00.000-04:002007-05-14T16:31:00.000-04:00Here, perhaps, is that quotation of Seamus Heaney ...Here, perhaps, is that quotation of Seamus Heaney in <A HREF="http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=105360809" REL="nofollow">context</A>:<BR/><BR/>"Auden was an epoch-making poet on public themes, the register of a new sensibility, a great sonneteer, a writer of perfect light verse, a prospector of language at its most illiterate roots and a dandy of lexicography at its most extravagant reaches. There is a Victorian bulk to this book that contains his confident, abundant, peremptory, insouciant opus. A hundred years from now Auden's work will certainly be in permanent and outstanding profile, and for all one's niggardly withholdings, in the end one assents with a 'yes' as pleasured and whole-hearted as Molly Bloom's."Dave Lullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01053227199985293516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-35528514467485781672007-05-14T13:08:00.000-04:002007-05-14T13:08:00.000-04:00Don't know why a non-poetry reading pleb such as m...Don't know why a non-poetry reading pleb such as myself has spent the last ten minutes delving this issue, and it yielded not a whole lot but that Heaney described Auden as being able to subjugate "all the traditional poetic means to his own purposes." <BR/>He also wrote a poem, "A Stove-Pipe for Auden", which is seemingly something of a homage. And also an essay, or not sure... perhaps a collection of essays, Sounding Auden, where he says, "Auden constantly returned to the double-nature of poetry. On the one hand...magical incantation, fundamentally a matter of sound and its power(sic)....on the other, poetry is a matter of making wise and true meanings, of commanding our emotional assent etc."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-34330563904297909392007-05-14T12:30:00.000-04:002007-05-14T12:30:00.000-04:00Oops, excessive use of Frank.Oops, excessive use of Frank.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-89640494136348236672007-05-14T12:29:00.000-04:002007-05-14T12:29:00.000-04:00Hi Frank-Did a little rummaging myself, Frank, for...Hi Frank-Did a little rummaging myself, Frank, for a mere couple of minutes admittedly & didn't find anything. Maybe tis representative of Heaney's views but then again.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-89872371845447801202007-05-14T12:23:00.000-04:002007-05-14T12:23:00.000-04:00Hi Andrew: A good point, though I suspect Sansom t...Hi Andrew: <BR/>A good point, though I suspect Sansom thinks Heaney's remark representative of his view of Auden. So far, I haven't been able to find much of what Heaney has had to say about Auden.Frank Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18410473158808750903noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10178279.post-54674054351588858572007-05-14T11:47:00.000-04:002007-05-14T11:47:00.000-04:00Can't say I have any knowledge of either poet real...Can't say I have any knowledge of either poet really, but a fw words taken inisolation can be made asay virtually anything. Heaney could, for instance, have said, "Auden could write geat poetry of rare depth, while also being a writer of perfect light verse." Then again, perhaps he simply considered him a writer of perfect light verse, which is presumably faint praise. Without a wider knowledge of his views, those few words in themselves are, however, rather than a devastating put-down, quite a compliment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com