[Vwoolf] The Secret Auden

[Emily Kopley]

Hi Mark, Greg, and All,

  Auden agreed with Mendelson that Woolf was among the major modernists: he
included VW on his syllabi when he taught at northeast colleges in the
1950s, and reviewing *A Writer's Diary *in the New Yorker he praised VW as
conceivably Bloomsbury's only "poet." He also included several VW quotes in
his commonplace book and quoted her admiringly in interviews.
   More on Woolf and Auden is in my short book with Cecil Woolf
Publishers, *Virginia
Woolf and the Thirties Poets*.
  Hope this helps bolster the upright image of Auden Mendelson details in
the NYRB article!

Best,
Emily


On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 4:28 AM, Gregory Jordan Dekter <jdekter at gmail.com>wrote:

> Mark,
>
> Beyond the quotation I am confident that Professor Mendelson fully regards
> Woolf as a "great modernist". The line you're referring to actually reads
> more as though it were channeling what Auden might have thought of the
> canon at that time. If you'd like to look into some of Professor
> Mendelson's writing on Woolf I would recommend *The Things That Matter:
> What Seven Classic Novels Have To Say About the Stages of Life *which
> covers *Mrs. Dalloway*,* To the Lighthouse*, and *Between the Acts*.
>
> Cheers
>
>
> On 1 March 2014 01:40, Mark <mark.travis at frontier.com> wrote:
>
>> I started to get a bit up in arms when the author of this piece made
>> reference to 'the great modernists' and left out the name Virginia Woolf.
>> Then I read the rest of the paragraph and the wonderful quote that is
>> contained in it and felt very gratified.
>>
>> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/20/
>> secret-auden/?pagination=false
>>
>> Mark Scott
>> Common Reader
>>
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Emily Kopley
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
McGill University, Department of English
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