Tell Me the Truth About Love: Fifteen Poems - Brossura

Auden, W H

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571195938 ISBN 13: 9780571195930

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 1998

Riassunto

Fifteen famous love poems and cabaret songs written in the thirties by W. H. Auden, including 'Funeral Blues' as featured in Four Weddings and a Funeral starring Hugh Grant and Andie Macdowell.

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L'autore:

W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907, and W. H. Auden was born in York in 1907, and brought up in Birmingham. His first book, Poems, was published by T. S. Eliot at Faber in 1930. He went to Spain during the civil war, to Iceland (with Louis MacNeice) and later travelled to China. In 1939 he and Christopher Isherwood left for America, where Auden spent the next fifteen years lecturing, reviewing, writing poetry and opera librettos, and editing anthologies. He became an American citizen in 1946, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1948. In 1956 he was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and a year later went to live in Kirchstetten in Austria, after spending several summers on Ischia. He died in Vienna in 1973.

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0571195938
• ISBN 13: 9780571195930
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 48