Considered to be a literary legend in the 1930s and 1940s, Rex Warner’s unique fictions remain powerful reflections on the turbulent politics of the period. In the 1940s, Warner grew increasingly disillusioned with the modern world and his writing interests turned to ancient times. Fiercer Than Tigers traces the personal and intellectual history of Rex Warner as it explores the composition, reception, and significance of his works, his friendships with contemporary Greek writers, his personal life, friendships with C. Day Lewis and W.H. Auden, intellectual journeys, and political ideologies. Some of Warner’s most noteworthy writings include Thucydides, which sold nearly one million copies, his historical novels including The Young Caesar, Imperial Caesar, Pericles the Athenian and The Converts, his unique fictions, and his collaborative work on the translation that contributed to poet George Seferis’s winning of the Nobel Prize. Personal acquaintance with Rex Warner gave Tabachnick access to unpublished sources across the US, Greece, and England.
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Considered to be a literary legend in the 1930s and 1940s, Rex Warner’s unique fictions remain powerful reflections on the turbulent politics of the period. In the 1940s, Warner grew increasingly disillusioned with the modern world and his writing interests turned to ancient times. Fiercer Than Tigers traces the personal and intellectual history of Rex Warner as it explores the composition, reception, and significance of his works, his friendships with contemporary Greek writers, his personal life, friendships with C. Day Lewis and W.H. Auden, intellectual journeys, and political ideologies. Some of Warner’s most noteworthy writings include Thucydides, which sold nearly one million copies, his historical novels including The Young Caesar, Imperial Caesar, Pericles the Athenian and The Converts, his unique fictions, and his collaborative work on the translation that contributed to poet George Seferis’s winning of the Nobel Prize. Personal acquaintance with Rex Warner gave Tabachnick access to unpublished sources across the US, Greece, and England.
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Stephen E. Tabachnick was a student of Rex Warner at the University of Connecticut. He is currently the English Department Chair at the University of Memphis.
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Rex Warner is known for two things. In his first incarnation he was a young novelist and member of the "Auden Generation" that flirted with communism throught the 30s. His novel "The Aerodrome" is his single substantial legacy from this period and one of the most original books of the decade. In his second phase he was an academic and a remarkable translator of Greek, especially of Xenophon and Thucidydes, and breathed new life into these authors with his remarkable and still fresh translations for Penguin books (his version of the "Anabasis" [translated as "The Persian Expedition"]done in the late 40s did for Xenophon what Rieu did for Homer). Also, he introduced the English speaking world to the work of the Greek poet George Seferis, who would later go on to win the Nobel Prize. I found this book moving and sad, especially given Warner's own self-assessment and feeling of failure regarding his life and career, but I especially enjoyed the chapter on Warner's time in Greece in the forties in which he embraces a new sense of self and seemed to be his happiest. Thank you Dr. Tabachnick for a long overdue bio of this great man.
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