On 04/05/2010 08:05, "joseph berg" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does that mean that a work of art should never distort or obscure reality? > > I have just picked up on this discussion and one thing that strikes me as peculiar is the lack of context for the discussion. For example, if Auden had said this in the 1930s its meaning, historically and for Auden would have been quite different, than if he had said/written it in the 1950s. Is that not of relevance? I would have thought it possible that the truth Auden spoke about would have been a social and/or political one, rather than an aesthetic one, if written in the 1930s. Then this discussion should have considered that or made a point of differing from the author's, Auden's, concerns from the outset to make the point more general, if not wider. Toodle-pip, Allan.
