Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 261 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511999420
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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
Content:
Introduction / Stan Smith -- Auden's life and character / Richard Davenport-Hines -- Auden's England / Patrick Deane -- Auden in America / Nicholas Jenkins -- The European Auden / Edward Mendelson -- Auden's travel writings / Tim Youngs -- Auden's plays and dramatic writings: theatre, film and opera / Christopher Innes -- Auden's light and serio-comic verse / Stan Smith -- Auden's prose / A.E. Sharpe -- Auden's English: language and style / Peter Porter -- Auden and modern theory / John R. Boly -- Auden's politics: power, authority and the individual / John Lucas -- Auden, psychology and society / Rod Mengham -- Auden: love, sexuality, desire / Richard R. Bozorth -- Auden and religion / Gareth Reeves -- Auden's landscapes / Paola Marchetti -- Auden and ecology / Rainer Emig -- Auden and influence / Ian Sansom -- Bibliographic essay and review of Auden studies / Nadia Herman Colburn
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521829625
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521536479
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521829625
Language:
English
