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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Really Wonderful Overview and Certainly Worth the Money,
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This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
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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The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Stan Smith (Hardcover - February 7, 2005)
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