W.H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 market more than a truning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry irself. The Age of Auden takes, for the frist time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Com…
Wasley shows how [W.H.] Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Au…
W.H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Com…