Crooked Europe: The Verse Drama of W.H. Auden (and Company)
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this essay I argue that the trajectory of W.H. Auden's short career in verse drama describes the impossibility of its own objective: the use of ritual to represent a coherent idea of Europe without invoking an objective historical or spiritual tradition. His verse plays, born out of a commitment to drama's ritual origins and potential, offer a useful measure of the difficulty of imagining European cultural cohesion in the inter-war period. Auden's plays employ a host of formal strategies to recreate the conditions of ritual, with some success. Moreover, Auden's plays, especially those written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, also wrestle with the problem of European political and cultural atomization. The solutions the plays offer, while often dramatically compelling, ultimately do not move beyond the political limitations and cultural disorders they describe, a shortcoming Auden later came to see in terms of the absence of tradition.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it