"In Solitude, for Company": W. H. Auden after 1940: Unpublished Prose and Recent Criticism (Auden Studies) [Hardcover]

W. H. Auden (Author), Katherine Bucknell (Editor), Nicholas Jenkins (Editor)

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Publication Date: February 29, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0198182945 | ISBN-13: 978-0198182948

The third volume of Auden Studies focuses on the later career of this major poet and intellectual, and includes a great deal of previously unpublished prose by him, as well as a selection from his letters. The writings demonstrate the scope of his intellect, which ranged easily from psychoanalysis to theology, archaeology to politics. Each piece is annotated and introduced by an Auden specialist, several of whom also contribute to a symposium, included here, on Auden's great poem "In Praise of Limestone."

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About the Author

Bucknell and Jenkins are joint editors of Auden Studies 1 (1990) and 2 (1994). Amongst other publications, Katherine Bucknell is the editor of W. H. Auden: Juvenilia: Poems 1922-1928 (Faber and Faber 1994/Princeton University Press 1994), and Nicholas Jenkins is the editor of Alan Ansen: the Table Talk of W. H. Auden (Princeton: Ontario Review Press, 1990; London: Faber and Faber, 1991)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (February 29, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198182945
• ISBN-13: 978-0198182948
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,147,080 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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