Early Auden, later Auden

Early Auden, later Auden: a critical biography

by Mendelson, Edward

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"Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W.H. Auden (1907-73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed history and interpretation of Auden's oeuvre, spanning the duration of his career from juvenilia to his final works in poetry as well as theatre, film, radio, opera, essays, and lectures. Early Auden, La…

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  • Full title :Early Auden, later Auden : a critical biography / Edward Mendelson.

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"Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W.H. Auden (1907-73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed history and interpretation of Auden's oeuvre, spanning the duration of his career from juvenilia to his final works in poetry as well as theatre, film, radio, opera, essays, and lectures. Early Auden, Later Auden begins with Auden's emigration from England to the United States. The book follows the evolution of his thought, offering a comparison of the poet's views at various junctures over a lifetime. With penetrating insight, Mendelson examines Auden's early ideas, methods, and personal transitions as reflected in poems, manuscripts and private papers. The book then links changes in Auden's intellectual, emotional and religious experience with his shifting public role--showing the depth of his personal struggles with self and with fame, and the means by which these internal conflicts were reflected in his art in later years."--

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  • Publication Date:©2017

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xiv, 895 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:140088294X, 9781400882946, 9780691172491, 0691172498
  • oclc:ocn981955009
  • LC Classification:PR6001.U4
  • Dewey Decimal:821.912

Table of Contents

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the One-Volume Edition; Early Auden; Introduction to Early Auden; PART ONE: THE BORDER AND THE GROUP (August 1927-May 1933); I The Exiled Word; II The Watershed; III Family Ghosts; IV The Evolutionary Defile; V Trickster and Tribe; VI Private Places; VII Looking for Land; PART TWO: THE TWO WORLDS (June 1933-January 1939); VIII Lucky This Point; IX The Great Divide; X The Insufficient Touch; XI Their Indifferent Redeemer; XII Parables of Action: 1; XIII Parables of Action: 2; XIV History to the Defeated; XV From This Island; Epilogue.

Later AudenIntroduction to Later Auden; PART ONE: VISION AND AFTER (1939-1947); I Demon or Gift; II The Vision Enters; III Against the Devourer; IV Investigating the Crime; V It without Image; VI Imaginary Saints; VII The Absconded Vision; VIII The Murderous Birth; IX Asking for Neighborhood; PART TWO: THE FLESH WE ARE (1948-1957); X The Murmurs of the Body; XI Waiting for a City; XII The Great Quell; XIII Number or Face; XIV The Altering Storm; PART THREE: TERRITORIAL (1958-1973); XV Poet of the Encirclement; XVI The Air Changes; XVII This Time Final; XVIII The Concluding Carnival.

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Subjects

Auden, W. H., (Wystan Hugh) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Criticism, interpretation, etc LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry

Writers

Mendelson, Edward

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