Later Auden - Couverture rigide

Mendelson, Professor Edward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0571197841 ISBN 13 : 9780571197842

Editeur : Faber and Faber, 1999

Synopsis

'For a poet like myself, an autobiography is redundant' Auden wrote to a friend, 'since anything of importance that happens to one is immediately incorporated, however obscurely, in a poem.' This scholarly book is the history of Auden's poems, and of the events that went into them, from the time he moved to America in 1939 until his death in Austria in 1973. It completes the study begun by Professor Mendelson in his standard Early Auden. Later Auden links the changes in Auden's intellectual, religious and domestic life with his shifting public roles - as representative of political causes, as a researcher working for the army in post-war Germany, as public moralist, lecturer and teacher, and above all as poet and thinker. Mendelson shows how Auden converted the success and later wreckage of his relationship with Chester Kallman into the seemingly impersonal meditations of his long poems, and explores theways his later poetry celebrates the human body. Throughout he reveals the depth of Auden's struggles with himself and with the temptations of his growing fame, showing how these struggles gave shape to his imperishable art.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Edward Mendelson is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden, and The Things That Matter.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber and Faber
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571197841
• ISBN 13: 9780571197842
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 592
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible