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Tradition and the Individual Talent: W.H. Auden on the Creative Impulse and Discipline

Autoři: Vít Ladislav

Rok: 2015

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	Tradition and the Individual Talent: W.H. Auden on the Creative Impulse and Discipline	In June 1927, Wystan Hugh Auden, an unknown student at Oxford University, submitted his juvenilia to Faber and Gwyer but the editor T.S. Eliot replied with a negative judgment three months later. However, thirty years later, in June 1956, Auden re-entered his Alma mater in order to deliver a lecture on the occasion of his installation to the chair of Professor of Poetry. Aged fifty, the man at the lectern was now an experienced, established poet with a distinctive, self-assured voice of international renown and influence. Notwithstanding this experience, Auden revealed to the distinguished audience an anxiety about his new duty to profess poetry. This occasion gave him an opportunity to explicitly elaborate on topics, which had occupied his mind since the 1920s. He spoke of the essence of the creative act, inspiration, the growth and shaping of a poetic mind and, mainly, the relation of a poet to tradition. In the following years, Auden the Professor tried to grapple with these issues repeatedly both in his prose and poetry. This presentation will examine Auden’s 1950s lectures and other texts with the intention to trace his perspective on the issue of the creative act in the context of his inter- and post-war relation to Modernism and its Janus-faced aesthetics. It will pay especial attention to Auden’s assessment of Classicist and Romantic impulses in the work of Modernist writers, who influenced his own poetic shaping and creating in the 1920s – the earliest stage of his literary oeuvre.	Wystan Hugh Auden; Modernism; Classicism; romanticism; poetry creativity