Event Title
W.H. Auden and the Modern Elegy
Location
Davis 306
Start Date
30-4-2015 2:45 PM
End Date
30-4-2015 3:25 PM
Project Type
Presentation
Description
With W.H. Auden's poems as case studies, this project investigates the definition of elegy as it has evolved in the modern moment. To what extent do poems of mourning composed in the modern times reflect and/or challenge the pastoral conventions that preceded them? To what extent are modern elegies consolatory or cynical?
Faculty Sponsor
Elizabeth Sagaser
Sponsoring Department
Colby College. English Dept.
CLAS Field of Study
Humanities
Event Website
http://www.colby.edu/clas
ID
1704
W.H. Auden and the Modern Elegy
Davis 306
With W.H. Auden's poems as case studies, this project investigates the definition of elegy as it has evolved in the modern moment. To what extent do poems of mourning composed in the modern times reflect and/or challenge the pastoral conventions that preceded them? To what extent are modern elegies consolatory or cynical?
https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/clas/2015/program/288