The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden - Brossura

Smith, Stan

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ISBN 10: 0521536472 ISBN 13: 9780521536479

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Riassunto

This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by some of the world's leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden, one of the major English-speaking poets of the twentieth century. The volume's contributors include a prize-winning poet, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from Auden critics, alongside specialists from such diverse fields as drama, ecological and travel studies. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English. Besides providing authoritative accounts of the key moments and dominant themes of his poetic development, the Companion examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalisation. It also contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.

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Recensione:

'For any student of Auden's writings or anyone interested in him as a man, this collection will prove essential reading.' Contemporary Review

'... the book should be on the shelves of all libraries collecting in the areas of Anglo-American relations, literature, drama, and 20th century social and political history.' Reference Reviews

Descrizione del libro:

This volume brings together specially commissioned essays by leading experts on the life and work of W. H. Auden. It provides scholars, students and general readers with a comprehensive and authoritative account of Auden's life and works in clear and accessible English, and contains a bibliography of writings about Auden.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521536472
• ISBN 13: 9780521536479
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288