W. H. Auden Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973
Birthday: February 21
Death: September 29
The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.
topic: Hero, Law, Suffering, Tragic Hero
