Offering original perspectives from new amd established Auden critics and others, 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 prize-winning poets, Auden's literary executor and editor, and his most recent, widely acclaimed biographer. The Companion also examines his language, style and formal innovation, his prose and critical writing and his ideas about sexuality, religion, psychoanalysis, politics, landscape, ecology, and globalization.
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"This companion to the poet succeeds both in proffering a comprehensive view of Auden and his work and in providing a plethora of resources for continued study. Essential." CHOICE
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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. It offers fresh perspectives on his work from new and established 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, and contains a comprehensive bibliography of writings about Auden.
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Some great, great essays (19) here on every aspect of Auden's life and career & writing though as usual quite a few of the essayists lapse into anecdotal style (v. frustrating for those of us interested purely in language). You won't find much post-modern musings in here but you will find a host of sensible commentaries as befits Cambridge UP.Certainly worth the money. I found the essay on theory a bit thin particularly as John Boly's own book on Auden's poetry is a rave. Rainer Emig features and he too has a book, Toward a Postmodern Poetics, which is very interesting, provocative and moves away from some of the orthodox views of Auden. -Sorry, but so many books purporting to be about Auden's poetry lapse into sly portraits of his life fine if you like that kind of thing (see John G. Blair on "the major failing" of Auden criticism.). Anyway, these essays are value for money, quite detailed, pointing in all kinds of directions. You will not find a better series of introductory essays though ed. George Bahlke's essays (1991), featuring some of the (then) leading lights of Auden Studies, might be a good companion purchase, if it is still in print.
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'Of the many definitions of poetry, the simplest is still the best: "memorable speech"', W. H. Auden wrote in the Introduction to his 1935 anthology, The Poet's Tongue (Poet's Tongue, p. v). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, New Year Letter, The Orators, United States, Edward Mendelson, The Age of Anxiety, Stan Smith, The Shield of Achilles, Certain World, Collected Poems, Homer Lane, Oxford University Press, Stephen Spender, New Criticism, Chester Kallman, Christopher Isherwood, Geoffrey Grigson, John Layard, Wyndham Lewis, Anthony Hecht, Edmund Wilson, Group Theatre, New Verse, Roy Fuller, Charles Madge New!
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'Of the many definitions of poetry, the simplest is still the best: "memorable speech"', W. H. Auden wrote in the Introduction to his 1935 anthology, The Poet's Tongue (Poet's Tongue, p. v). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, New Year Letter, The Orators, United States, Edward Mendelson, The Age of Anxiety, Stan Smith, The Shield of Achilles, Certain World, Collected Poems, Homer Lane, Oxford University Press, Stephen Spender, New Criticism, Chester Kallman, Christopher Isherwood, Geoffrey Grigson, John Layard, Wyndham Lewis, Anthony Hecht, Edmund Wilson, Group Theatre, New Verse, Roy Fuller, Charles Madge New!
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- Paul Bunyan: Libretto by W. H. Auden on 6 pages
- Later Auden by Edward Mendelson on 6 pages
- Louis MacNeice by Elton Edward Smith on page 80, page 95, and page 109
- Auden and Isherwood: The Berlin Years by Norman Page on page 243, and page 245
- Illusion and Reality: A Study of the Sources of Poetry by Christopher Caudwell on page 14, and page 34
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