Auden - Couverture souple

Davenport-Hines, R. P. T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749396482 ISBN 13 : 9780749396480

Editeur : Minerva, 1996

Synopsis

This biography of W.H. Auden, one of the best-known English poets of the century, is not only a study of his life and ideas, but a commentary on the wars, ideologies and attitudes of his times. Auden saw his life as a quest, and his journey took him from Edwardian middle-class boyhood in Birmingham and precocious poetic brilliance at Oxford in the 1920s to bold sexual and psychological experiments in Weimar Berlin and radical politics in 1930s Britain, followed by a searching self-reinvention and grave and unpopular revision of his work after settling in the USA in 1939. Davenport-Hines describes how Auden always pushed himself to surmount new tests and ordeals in his quest, and argues that his life reached its pitch of emotional excitement and intellectual integrity in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A masterful biography of one of the greatest English poets and most compelling literary figures of the 20th century, Auden is the first to take the full measure of the poet's achievements, his insatiable thirst for experience, his navigation between the needs of discipline and the lure of his addictions and lusts. of photos.

Biographie de l'auteur

Richard Davenport-Hines was born in 1953. The author of several books, including Sex, Death, and Punishment and The MacMillans
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Minerva
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749396482
• ISBN 13: 9780749396480
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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