September 1, 1939: W.H. Auden and the Afterlife of a Poem [electronic resource]
Sansom, Ian2019
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This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book about a poet – W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scapegoat and a poet-expatriate largely excluded from British literary history because he left.About a poem – ‘September 1, 1939’, his most famous and celebrated, yet one which he tried to rewrite and disown and which has enjoyed – or been condemned – to a tragic and unexpected afterlife.About a city – New York, an island, an emblem of the Future, magnificent, provisional, seamy, and in 1939 about to emerge as the defining twentieth-century cosmopolis, the capital of the world.And about a world at a point of change – about 1939, and about our own Age of Anxiety, about the aftermath of September 11, when many American newspapers reprinted Auden’s poem in its entirety on their editorial pages.
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Sansom, Ian, authorCloud
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[S.l.] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2019.
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1 online resource352 p.
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Electronic book.Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] HarperCollins Publishers 2019 Available via World Wide Web.
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Format: Adobe EPUBRequires: cloudLibrary (file size: 1.3 MB)
ISBN:
9780007557226
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English
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|Literary|HISTORY|Europe|HISTORY|Great Britain|LITERARY CRITICISM & COLLECTIONS|English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh|LITERARY CRITICISM & COLLECTIONS|European (see also subheadings such as|POETRY|HISTORY|United States|21st Century|LITERARY CRITICISM & COLLECTIONS|Modern|20th Century|Electronic books
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3323472
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