Secondary Worlds
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(publ. Faber & Faber)
Secondary Worlds is a book of four essays by W. H. Auden, first published in 1968.
The four essays in the book are based on the four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures that Auden delivered at Eliot College of the University of Kent in Canterbury from 25 to 28 October 1967. The titles of the four lectures are: "The Martyr as Dramatic Hero" (held on 25 October 1967), "The World of the Saga" (original lecture title "The Saga Hero, or Epic & Social Realism", 26 October 1967), "The World of Opera" (original lecture title "The Mythical World of Opera", 27 October 1967), and "Words and the Word" (28 October 1967).[1]
The title of the book is taken from J. R. R. Tolkien's essay "On Fairy Stories".
The book is dedicated to Valerie Eliot.
References
- ^ Information obtained from Special Collections and Archives at the University of Kent, e-mail 11 December 2023.
- Edward Mendelson, Later Auden (1999)
External links
- The W. H. Auden Society
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- Poems (1930)
- The Orators (1932)
- On This Island (1936)
- Another Time (1940)
- The Double Man (1941)
- For the Time Being (1944)
- The Age of Anxiety (1947)
- Nones (1951)
- The Shield of Achilles (1955)
- Homage to Clio (1960)
- About the House (1966)
- City Without Walls (1969)
- Academic Graffiti (1971)
- Epistle to a Godson (1972)
- Thank You, Fog (1974)
prose and verse
- Letters from Iceland (1937, with Louis MacNeice)
- Journey to a War (1939, with Christopher Isherwood)
and other books
- The Enchafèd Flood (1950)
- The Dyer's Hand (1962)
- Secondary Worlds (1968)
- A Certain World (1970)
- Forewords and Afterwords (1973)
- "The Orators" (1932)
- "Funeral Blues" (1936)
- "Spain" (1937)
- "Musée des Beaux Arts" (1938)
- "Refugee Blues" (1939)
- "September 1, 1939" (1939)
- "The Unknown Citizen" (1939)
- "Hymn to St. Cecilia" (1940)
- "For the Time Being" (1944)
- "The Sea and the Mirror" (1944)
- "The Age of Anxiety" (1947)
- "In Praise of Limestone" (1948)
- "The Platonic Blow" (1948)
- "Horae Canonicae" (1949–55)
- "Bucolics" (1952–53)
- "The Shield of Achilles" (1955)
- Paid on Both Sides (1928)
- The Dance of Death (1933)
- The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935)
- The Ascent of F6 (1936)
- On the Frontier (1938)
- Play of Daniel (1958)
- Paul Bunyan (1941)
- The Rake's Progress (1951)
- Elegy for Young Lovers (1961)
- The Bassarids (1966)
- Love's Labour's Lost (1973)
- Night Mail (1936)
- George Augustus Auden (father)
- John Bicknell Auden (brother)
- John Auden (first cousin)
- Chester Kallman (companion)
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