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Auden and Christianity.(Brief article)(Book review)
Auden and Christianity (Yale, 207 pp., $30), by University of Virginia professor emeritus Arthur Kirsch, is a helpful exposition of how a great poet's faith animated his work. "Art is not metaphysics," Auden once said, "and the artist is usually unwise to insist too directly in his art upon his beliefs; but without an adequate and conscious metaphysics in the background, art's imitation of life inevitably becomes, either a photostatic copy of the accidental details of life without pattern or significance, or a personal allegory of the artist's individual dementia, of interest primarily to the psychologist and the historian."
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