Abstract:

Though critics have long recognized the influence of Søren Kierkegaard on poet W. H. Auden, the understanding of Auden's debt to Kierkegaard has primarily focused on the most famous aspects of Kierkegaard's thought: the "stages of life" and "leap of faith." By recovering the depths of Auden's reading of Kierkegaard, this article redefines their relationship: Kierkegaard's most lasting impact on Auden consisted in his views on the public, literary vocation, and necessity of indirection. In redefining Auden's debt to Kierkegaard, I also seek to recover Auden's continued commitment to public poetry in his supposedly private later career.

摘要：

尽管评论家早就认识到索伦·克尔凯郭尔对诗人 WH·奥登的影响，但对奥登对克尔凯郭尔的贡献的理解主要集中在克尔凯郭尔思想中最著名的方面：“人生阶段”和“信仰的飞跃”。通过恢复奥登对克尔凯郭尔的阅读深度，本文重新定义了他们之间的关系：克尔凯郭尔对奥登最持久的影响在于他对公众、文学使命和间接必要性的看法。在重新定义奥登对克尔凯郭尔的贡献时，我还试图恢复奥登在他后来所谓的私人职业生涯中对公共诗歌的持续承诺。