Tragedy and Comedy Flashcards
Seamus Perry
‘at once impressive and comical, as though acting out some great running joke about authority or seriousness’
Spender
‘the incarnation of a serious joke’
Auden’s criticism is not a very reliable guide to his own poetry; in “Notes on the Comic”____
he more or less equates comedy with what provokes laughter
Auden felt comedy was the most humane and the most profound literary response to the ________
“baffle of being”
his comic vision is deeply bound up with his Anglicanism and his ______ ___ ___ _________.
sacramental view of phenomena
Auden’s comic vision is distinctive of the Anglican thinking following the publication of ___ _____ in 1889
Lux Mundi
Lux Mundi was a manifestation of Incarnational theology which saw the world as permeated by God____
so life is essentially a good to be enjoyed and celebrated since it partakes in the divine
the world in spite of its shortcomings is of ______ worth
inestimable
Davison
“it is amazing that this tawdry world of cracked tea-cups, seduced Jills and crooked hearts, should “remain a blessing” Fallen man and his fallen world are worthwhile”
Comedy as well as being ‘less /heartless’ than tragedy, may be a more reliable access to ____ truth.
religious
comedy is a means of expressing the rich _____ enigma of life
religious
Auden’s comedy laughs….
with, rather than AT Fallen and suffering humanity
