World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender - Rilegato

Spender, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0679640452 ISBN 13: 9780679640455

Casa editrice: Modern Library, 2001

Riassunto

Presents the British poet's autobiography, including portraits of friends Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, and Christopher Isherwood.

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Stephen Spender (1909-1996) was one of the most prominent poets of the twentieth century, part of the generation of writers that produced Auden, Eliot, and Isherwood. His most notable books are The Temple, The Collected Poems, and what is now considered his masterpiece, World Within World.

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s book I am mainly concerned with a few themes: love; poetry; politics; the life of literature....I believe obstinately that, if I am able to write with truth about what has happened to me, this can help others....In this belief I have risked being indiscreet, and I have written occasionally of experiences which seem strange to me myself, and which I have not seen discussed else-where." So begins Stephen Spender's autobiography, widely acclaimed as the twentieth century's greatest memoir.

Spender was one of his generation's most celebrated poets, a writer living at the intersection of literature and politics in Europe between the two world wars. His portraits of his friends Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden,
W. B. Yeats, and Christopher Isherwood render a romantic world of literary genius. Spender uses a poet's language to create an honest and tender exploration of amity and the many possibilities of love. First published in 1951, World Within World simultan

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Modern Library
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0679640452
• ISBN 13: 9780679640455
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 398
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