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W. H. AUDEN

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T. S. Eliot
Memorial Lectures
Secondary Worlds-Art and Truth
2. The Saga Hero, or Epic and Social Realism
The historian's desire is for truth and the poet's for re-creation, but neither can do without the other and their worlds overlap-the primary, objective world around us and the secondary, personal worlds of the imagination. The conditions for the successful marriage of history and poetry were uniquely present in thirteenth-century Iceland and W. H. Auden examines the language and the society which encouraged the saga writers to narrate their stories.
The lectures, endowed by S Eliot's publishers. Faber and Faber. were delivered in the University of Kent in October and recorded at the time for the Third Programme. 3: The Mythical World of Opera: January 15

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