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The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare´s The Tempest
W.H. Auden
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Paperback. Contains an introduction and notes that make the poem accessible to readers of Auden and readers of Shakespeare. This poem begins in a theater after a performance of "The Tempest" has ended. It includes a speech in verse by Prospero bidding farewell to Ariel. Editor(s): Kirsch, Arthur C. Series: W. H. Auden: Critical Editions. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception of art" and it is "my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe The Tempest to be Shakespeare's." This is the first critical edition. Arthur Kirsch's introduction and notes make the poem newly accessible to readers of Auden, readers of Shakespeare, and all those ... Read more
Written in the midst of World War II after its author emigrated to America, "The Sea and the Mirror" is not merely a great poem but ranks as one of the most profound interpretations of Shakespeare's final play in the twentieth century. As W. H. Auden told friends, it is "really about the Christian conception of art" and it is "my Ars Poetica, in the same way I believe The Tempest to be Shakespeare's." This is the first critical edition. Arthur Kirsch's introduction and notes make the poem newly accessible to readers of Auden, readers of Shakespeare, and all those ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
W. H. Auden: Critical Editions
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691123844
SKU
V9780691123844
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About W.H. Auden
Arthur Kirsch, Alice Griffin Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Virginia, is the editor of "Auden's Lectures on Shakespeare" (Princeton).
Reviews for The Sea and the Mirror: A Commentary on Shakespeare´s The Tempest
"The Sea and the Mirror is the most brilliant and unsettling of the four long poems Auden composed during his furiously industrious first decade in America ... an intriguing mixture of the theatrical and the poetic... [It] represents his most determined and considered attempt to 'grow up,' but it moves most by its failure to do so."
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