W.H. Auden's Poetry : The Quest for Love is a study of the major twentieth-century British-American poet W.H. Auden's mutating quest for love in the shifting and interactive Freudian, Marxist and Christian-Kierkegaardian contexts. It focuses on the poems of the most fertile period (1927-47) of Auden's poetic career. Certain identifiable images are symbolic of the quest for love in each phase, offering an analysis of man in Freudian and Marxist terms. The ...
