W.H. Auden's Poetry: Art, Suffering, and Society - Lecture 23

Explore the second lecture on W.H. Auden in Yale University's Modern Poetry course, delving into the poet's treatment of art, suffering, and society. Examine Auden's interpretation of Brueghel's "Fall of Icarus" in "Musée des Beaux Arts," and analyze his reflections on art's role in society through elegies like "In Memory of W.B. Yeats" and "In Memory of Sigmund Freud." Discover how Freud's "talking cure" is reimagined as a model for poetry-making, and investigate "In Praise of Limestone" as a late allegorical vision of a secular, earthly paradise. Access complete course materials on the Open Yale Courses website for this Spring 2007 recording.