Three lectures on poetry by W. H. Auden
1—What is poetry about?
Though nearly all poems written in the last nineteen hundred years,' says Mr. Auden, ' are the joint product of the Poet and the Historian, the collaboration is one of uneasy tension.' In this lecture Mr. Auden defines the subject-matter of poetry with the help of two portraits, one of the essential Poet and the other of the essential Historian.
To be repeated on June 13
The Poetic Process: June 16