TY - BOOK AU - Aquien,Pascal TI - W. H. Auden, from “Atlantis” to the New Jerusalem PY - 2001///. N1 - 7 N2 - To some extent, W. H. Auden’s poetry rests on the nostalgia for a lost plenitude. This concern is the starting point of a quest for the reconstitution of a Utopia, which he compares with the deceptively ideal New Jerusalem. However, Auden’s “good place” is neither political nor religious; it is a purely verbal society based on his conception of Whitsunday/Pentecost, the only possible Utopia being to him poetic UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-etudes-anglaises-2001-1-page-41?lang=en ER -